| IPAT | Institute of Personality and Ability Testing; Iowa Pressure Articulation Test |
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| JPI | Jackson Personality Inventory |
| KSP | Karolinska Scales of Personality; kidney-specific protein |
| MAPI | microbial alkaline protease inhibitor; Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory |
| MMPI | matrix metalloproteinase specific for collagen type I; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory |
| generalised anxiety disorder | Chronic, repeated episodes of anxiety reactions; a psychological disorder in which anxiety or morbid fear and dread accompanied by autonomic changes are prominent features. See: anxiety. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| reactive attachment disorder | Markedly disturbed and developmentally inappropriate social relatedness that begins before age 5 and is associated with grossly pathological child care. The child may persistently fail to initiate and respond to social interactions in a developmentally appropriate way (inhibited type) or there may be a pattern of diffuse attachments with nondiscriminate sociability (disinhibited type). (12 Dec 1998) |
| paranoid disorder | A false belief, seen most often in psychosis (for example schizophrenia). (27 Sep 1997) |
| visceral disorder | Nomenclature used in reference to psychosomatic disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| REM behaviour disorder | A disorder characterised by lack of the atonia of voluntary muscles that normally occurs in REM sleep. (05 Mar 2000) |
| memory disorder | Disturbances in registering an impression, in the retention of an acquired impression or in the recall of an impression. (12 Dec 1998) |
| character disorder | A term referring to a group of behavioural disorder's, now replaced by a more general term, personality disorder, of which character disorder's are now a subclass. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental disorder | A psychological syndrome or behavioural pattern that is associated with either subjective distress or objective impairment. See: mental illness, behaviour disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| grandiose type of paranoid disorder | A delusion in which the person believes that he or she possesses some great but unrecognised talent or insight, or has made an important discovery, with subsequent efforts toward official or public recognition. (05 Mar 2000) |
| persecutory type of paranoid disorder | One of the most common of the types of paranoid disorders, it involves a single theme or series of connected themes, such as being conspired against, cheated, spied on, followed, poisoned or drugged, maligned, harassed, or obstructed in the pursuit of long-term goals; small slights may be exaggerated and become the focus of a delusional system. See: paranoia. Compare: paranoid personality disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pervasive developmental disorder | A class of mental disorders of infancy, childhood, or adolescence characterised by distortions in the development of the multiple basic psychological functions involved in the development of social skills and language. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pervasive development disorder | <neurology, psychiatry> A large group of developmental disabilities which are neurological disorders, usually of unknown cause. Characteristics include reduced abilities to understand language and communicate normally, reduced ability to socially interact with others in a normal manner, and limited variety in activities and interests. Individuals will also often respond in unusual ways to sensations, engage in repetitive activities, and resist changes to the environment or to daily routines. Types of pervasive development disorder include autism, Retts Syndrome, Hellers Syndrome, and Aspergers Syndrome. Acronym: PDD (12 Jan 1998) |
| chromosome disorder | An abnormal condition due to an abnormality of the chromosomes. For example, Down syndrome (the genetic abnormality featuring three chromosome 21s, instead of two, also refered to as trisomy 21) is a chromosome disorder. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rumination disorder | A mental disorder occurring in infancy characterised by repeated regurgitation of food; usually accompanied by weight loss or failure to gain weight. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cocaine-related disorder | <psychiatry> Disorders related or resulting from use of cocaine. (12 Dec 1998) |