Other mental disorders

Disorders without their own page in Conditions: neurodevelopmental, sleep, sexual, impulse-control and substance-related.

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Disorder

• Amnestic syndromes: Korsakoff and other causesLosing the ability to form or recall memories while attention and thinking are largely kept…
• Caffeine intoxication and withdrawalToo much caffeine can cause restlessness, a racing heart and sleeplessness; stopping it suddenly…
• Communication disorders: language, speech sound, stuttering and social communicationProblems understanding or using words, making speech sounds, speaking smoothly, or using…
• Developmental coordination disorder and stereotypic movement disorderTwo childhood motor disorders: unusual clumsiness that gets in the way of daily tasks, and…
• EncopresisRepeated passing of stool in clothes or other wrong places by a child aged 4 or older, most…
• Gaming disorder and other behavioral addictionsWhen gaming or another activity escapes control and harms daily life for a long time; only…
• Hypersomnolence and circadian rhythm sleep-wake disordersBeing very sleepy despite enough sleep, or sleeping well but at the wrong times because the body…
• Inhalant use and anabolic-androgenic steroid misuseInhalants are household vapours sniffed for a brief high, sometimes fatal on first use; anabolic…
• Intellectual disabilityLifelong limits in reasoning and learning together with limits in everyday living skills…
• Intermittent explosive disorder, kleptomania and pyromaniaThree disorders of failing to resist an impulse: sudden outbursts of rage, stealing things not…
• NREM parasomnias and nightmare disorderUnwanted events during sleep: sleepwalking, night terrors and confused arousals from deep sleep…
• Pica, rumination and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorderThree eating problems without worry about weight or shape: eating things that are not food…
• Reactive attachment and disinhibited social engagement disordersTwo disorders of young children raised with severe neglect: one child withdraws from caregivers…
• Selective mutismA child who can talk, and talks at home, stays silent at school or with strangers because of…
• Specific learning disorder (dyslexia, dyscalculia)A lasting difficulty with reading, writing or math that is not explained by intellectual…
• The human sexual response and the sexual dysfunctionsHow sexual desire, arousal, orgasm and resolution work, and the lasting problems with them that…

Topic

• Other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attentionProblems that are not mental disorders but shape health and care: troubled relationships, abuse…
• Psychiatric symptoms caused by medical illness and drugsDepression, anxiety, psychosis or personality change can be the first sign of a body or brain…

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