Abreaction:  An emotional release or discharge after recalling a painful experience that has . . .
Abulia:  A lack of will or motivation which is often expressed as inability to make decis . . .
Acalculia:  The loss of a previously possessed ability to calculate mathematically. . . .
Acculturation Difficulty:  A problem stemming from an inability to . . .
Acetylcholine:  A neurotransmitter in the brain, which helps to regulate memory, and in the peri . . .
Acting Out:  This is the process of expressing unconscious emotional conflicts or feelings vi . . .
Actualization:  The realization of ones full potential intellectual, psychological, physical . . .
Acute Dystonia:  An extrapyramidal symptom caused by some antipsychotics which takes the form of . . .
Acute Schizophrenia:  (a-cute skiz-o-fre-ne-ah) The height of symptoms of schizophrenia. . . .
Adiadochokinesia:  The inability to perform rapid alternating movements of one or more of the extr . . .
Affect:  pattern of observable behaviours which is the expression of a subjectively exper . . .
Affective Disorder:  (ah-feck-tiv dis-or-der) A mental disorder in which the main symptom is an abnor . . .
Affective Flattening:  Limited range and intensity of emotional expression. A negative symptom of schiz . . .
Affective Symptoms:  Symptoms of schizophrenia that relate to mood or emotional expression. . . .
Age-Associated Memory Impairment (AAMI):  The mild disturbance in memory function . . .
Agitation:  Excessive motor activity that accompanies and is associated with a feeling of i . . .
Agnosia:  Failure to recognize or identify objects despite intact sensory function; This . . .
Agnostic Alexia:  words can be seen but cannot be read.
Agonist Medication:  A chemical entity that is not naturally occuring within the body which acts upo . . .
Agoraphobia:  literally a fear of the market place. Generally high levels of anxiety and phobi . . .