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arrow Labile:

14-07-2006
Unstable; characterized by rapidly changing emotions.
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arrow La belle indifference:

14-07-2006
Attitude of calm that contrasts sharply with the extent of the patient’s disability.
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arrow Korsakoff's psychosis:

14-07-2006
A syndrome usually associated with alcoholism and characterized by confusion, disorientation and amnesia with confabulation.
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arrow Koro:

14-07-2006
An acute anxiety reaction characterized by the patient's fear that his penis is shrinking and may disappear into his abdomen, in which case he will die. This psychogenic disorder is found only among the people of the Malay archipelago and among the South Chinese.
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arrow Kinesthetic hallucinations:

14-07-2006
False perception of muscular movement. An amputee may feel movement in his missing limb; this phenomenon is al so known as phantom 1imb.
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arrow Involutional melancholia involutional psychotic reaction:

14-07-2006
Depression occurring most commonly in late middle age or the menopausal period, characterized by insomnia, anxiety and sometimes by paranoid ideas. There is usually no history of previous mental disorder.
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