mental disease

The Name of Mental Disease

Dementia

Dementia is a syndrome that is signed by cognitive function disorder without conscious. The cognitive function disorder are intelligence, education and memory, language, problem solving, Orientation, perception, attention and concentration, socialization ability, and adaptation.

Depression

Depression is happened when the human function is disturbed, that is related with sadness and another symptom, including change of sleep pattern and appetite, psychomotor, concentration, anhedonia (lose of happiness totally in some activity that can make happy), fatigue, hopeless and weakness, and suicide.

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a group of psychotic disorder with foundation disorder in personality, distortion especially thinking process, sometimes they fell that they are reinsed by outside power, understand but sometimes they are strange, perception disorder abnormal effect that combine with real situation or reality, and autism. But, the intelligence capacity does not be disturbed.

Alcohol use disorder and drug use disorder

Drug use concepts are including behavior and physical dependence. Behavior dependence is emphasized in finding drugs activity. Physical dependence is emphasized in physiologic effect from repeated drugs using.

Epilepsy

Epilepsy is signed by repeated stiff. It is caused by central nervous system dysfunction.

Neuropathy

Neuropathy is functional pathology disorder in periphery nervous system, sometimes it is only non inflammatory lesion, and it is the opposite with neuritis. It is also defined as deranged function and structure of peripheral motor, sensory, autonomic neurons, involving either the entire neuron or selected level.

Alzheimer

Alzheimer is disease that attacks the brain. It is the most common form of dementia. Some signs to watch for include changes in memory and behavior.

Migraine

Migraine is a form of vascular headache. It is caused by a combination of vasodilatation (enlargement of blood vessels) and release of chemical from nerve fiber that coils around the blood vessels.

Cerebrosvascular disease

Cerebrosvascular disease is constellation of disorders involving the blood vessels of brain. The causes include atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, infection, aneurysm and vasculitis. Another research said that, cerebrosvascular is a group of brain dysfunctions that related to disease of blood vessels supplying the brain.

Nutrition Disorder and eating disorder

Nutrition disorder can be caused by insufficient intake of food or certain nutrients; it is caused by an ability of the body to absorb and use nutrients or over consumption of certain food. Eating disorder is a compulsion to eat or avoid eating, that negatively of foods both physical and mental health, Ex. Anorexia nervosa.

Refences

Kapita Selecta Kedokteran

Dorland Medical Dictionary

Indonesian-English Dictionary