Category: B

Bounce or explosive movement, unsustained.  

A disorder that includes, in interpersonal relationships, inappropriate, intense, uncontrolled anger; identity disturbance; instability of affect; intolerance of being alone; physically self-damaging acts; and feelings of emptiness. Not clearly belonging to either one of two categories. Referring to a medical condition likely to develop in someone unless an effort is made to prevent it. Characterized…

One of the original thirteen founders of the American Psychiatric Association (1844) and the founder and first editor of its official journal, now the American Journal of Psychiatry.    

A DSM-III-R category for a psychosis lasting less than one week, with sudden onset after major stress. A disorder in which the person has a sudden onset of psychotic symptoms, such as incoherence, loosening of associations, delusions, and hallucinations, immediately after a severely disturbing event. The symptoms last more than a few hours, but for…

Neurologic condition characterized by a generalized slowness of motor activity.  

A psychiatrist who is eligible to take the examinations of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; a psychiatrist who has completed an approved psychiatric residency training program.  

Swiss psychiatrist whose investigations of dementia praecox led him to outline a modern concept of schizophrenia.  

A disorder characterized by mild hypomania generally not requiring treatment. The patients may also have depressive episodes.      

A disorder characterized by moderate to severe hypomanic or manic episodes requiring treatment or hospitalization for the excited state. These patients generally have recurrent episodes of depression.