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For questions about this branch of psychology which seeks to classify and characterize mental disorders. Aberrant or socially maladaptive thought patterns are the earmarks of many of these disorders, but the extent to which they are socially abnormal is evaluated subjectively based on customs and social practices. For questions related to treatment consider the tag psychiatry and for somatogenic disorders --- neurology.
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What's the difference between perseveration and hyperfocus?
I myself have never found evidence to suggest a difference between perseveration and hyperfocus when referring to ADHD. However, while 'hyperfocus' can be a psychiatric or non-psychiatric condition, p …
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Are there any movies or series involving someone with ADHD?
The problem with ADHD is that it doesn't really have its own trademark indicator, the way that schizophrenia or Asperger's might. There are several different subtypes of ADHD, and they tend to look di …
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Why do some people react verbally to intrusive thoughts and/or embarrassing memories?
It seems to me that there are two kinds of intrusive thoughts. The first consists of those thoughts that didn't actually occur in real life, but are nonetheless intrusive and embarrassing and disturbi …
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How common is the form of amnesia depicted in fictional works?
What you are referring to is something called dissociative fugue. It is characterized as an official psychiatric disorder and dissociative disorder in the DSM-5, and its prevalence has been estimated …
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Tendency to see novelty in mundane and trivial statements
Might apophenia be the term you are looking for?
The term is attributed to Klaus Conrad by Peter Brugger, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific exper …
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Why do we have so much neurological research on and treatment designed for dyslexia, yet les...
I know next to nothing about intervention methods designed for dyscalculia, or 'dyslexia with numbers', as I have heard it colloquially referred to (considering how obscure the term seems to be compar …
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Does schizophrenia cause a loss of intelligence?
Regarding schizophrenia and loss of IQ:
I don't know how much we can say about the 'loss' of IQ in schizophrenia patients. If anything, it appears to me that a decrease in overall IQ is augmented by …
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Does high IQ give cause to doubt an ADHD diagnosis?
Sounds to me like someone is making a logical fallacy here, though the origin of this fallacy isn't clear to me.
We cannot go from 'poor academic performance', to 'not amounting to anything', to 'hav …
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Why would I be asked to count backwards by 3, from 100 in a psychological test?
Why would I be asked to count backwards by 3, from 100 in a psychological test?
This is to test your cognitive reasoning abilities, particularly your ability to concentrate and recall serial info …
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Can adhd and ocd coexist? Is it in the same way mania and depression can coexist (in bipolar...
Yes, they can coexist. No, they aren't opposites. How could they be? Both ADHD and OCD affect a variety of different brain regions, and its effects are not consistent in every person. Maybe if OCD and …
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What is the relationship between rejection sensitive dysphoria and ADHD?
Upon closer examination, it appears that Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria is a term that was coined by Dr. William Dodson to describe the phenomenon of rejection sensitivity in ADHD sufferers. It does no …
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