| affect memory | The emotional element recurring whenever a significant experience is recalled. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| affect | The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| affect displacement | A shift of feeling from the object originally arousing it to some associated object. (05 Mar 2000) |
| affect display | Facial expressions, postures, and gestures indicating emotional states. (05 Mar 2000) |
| affect hunger | Emotional hunger for maternal love and feelings of protection and care implied in the mother-child relationship. (05 Mar 2000) |
| affect spasms | Rarely used term for spasmodic attacks of laughing, weeping, and screaming, accompanied by marked tachypnea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blunted affect | A disturbance in mood seen in schizophrenic patients manifested by shallowness and a severe reduction in the expression of feeling. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inappropriate affect | An emotional tone or outward emotional reaction out of harmony with the idea, object, or thought accompanying it. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flat affect | The absence of or diminution in the amount of emotional tone or outward emotional reaction typically shown by others or oneself under similar circumstances; a milder form is termed blunted affect. (05 Mar 2000) |
| labile affect | The rapid shifts in outward emotional expressions; often associated with organic brain syndromes such as intoxication. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterograde memory | Memory for that which occurred after an event such as a brain injury. (05 Mar 2000) |
| remote memory | Memory for events of long ago as opposed to recent events. (05 Mar 2000) |
| retrograde memory | Memory for that which occurred before an event such as a brain injury. (05 Mar 2000) |
| memory | Complex mental function having four distinct phases: (1) memorizing or learning, (2) retention, (3) recall, and (4) recognition. Clinically, it is usually subdivided into immediate, recent, and remote memory. (12 Dec 1998) |
| memory cell | <immunology> Cells of the immune system that do not respond immediately when it first encounters an antigen but facilitates the more rapid secondary response when the antigen is encountered on a subsequent occasion. The long lasting immune memory is humoral and resides in B-cells, although it appears that persistence of the antigen may be essential. T-cell memory is shorter. (14 Oct 1997) |
| memory disorder | Disturbances in registering an impression, in the retention of an acquired impression or in the recall of an impression. (12 Dec 1998) |