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A disorder in which an individual feigns or induces physical symptoms, typically for the purpose of assuming the role of a sick person.
Factitious Disorder
A disorder in which bodily symptoms affect voluntary motor and sensory functions, but the symptoms are inconsistent with known medical diseases.
Conversion Disorder
A disorder in which persons become excessively distressed, concerned, and anxious about bodily symptoms that they are experiencing, and their lives are greatly and disproportionately disrupted by the symptoms.
Somatic Symptom Disorder
In psychodynamic theory, the gain achieved when somatic symptoms keep internal conflicts out of awareness.
Primary Gain
In psychodynamic theory, the gain achieved when somatic symptoms elicit kindness from others or provide an excuse to avoid unpleasant activities.
Secondary Gain
A disorder in which persons are chronically anxious about and preoccupied with the nation that they have or are developing a serious medical illness, despite the absence of somatic symptoms. Previously known as hypochondriasis.
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Disorders in which biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors interact to cause or worsen a physical illness. Also known as psychological factors affecting medical condition.
Psychophysiological Disorders
A lesion that forms in the wall of the stomach or the duodenum.
Ulcer
A medical problem marked by narrowing of the trachea and bronchi, which results in shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing, and a choking sensation.
Asthma
Difficulty falling or staying asleep.
Insomnia
A headache caused by a narrowing of muscles surrounding the skull. Also known as tension headache.
Muscle Contraction Headache
A very severe headache that occurs on one side of the head, often preceded by a warning sensation and sometimes accompanied by dizziness, nausea, or vomiting.
Migraine Headache
Chronic high blood pressure.
Hypertension
Illness of the heart caused by a blockage in the coronary arteries.
Coronary heart disease
A personality pattern characterized by hostility, cynicism, drivenness, impatience, competitiveness, and ambition.
Type A personality Style
A personality pattern in which persons are more relaxed, less aggressive, and less concerned about time.
Type B personality Style
The study of the connections between stress, the body’s immune system, and illness.
Psychoneuroimmunology
The body’s network of activities and cells that identify and destroy antigens and cancer cells.
Immune System
A foreign invader of the body, such as a bacterium or virus.
Antigen
White blood cells that circulate through the lymph system and bloodstream, helping the body identify and destroy antigens and cancer cells.
Lymphocytes
A disorder marked by the pursuit of. extreme thinness and by extreme loss of weight.
Anorexia Nervosa
The cessation of menstrual cycles.
Amenorrhea
A disorder marked by frequent eating binges that are followed by forced vomiting or other extreme compensator y behaviors to avoid gaining weight. Also known as binge-purge syndrome.
Bulimia Nervosa
An episode of uncontrollable eating during which a person ingests a very large quantity of blood.
Binge
A disorder marked by frequent binges but not extreme compensatory behaviors.
Binge eating disorder
A theory that identifies several kinds of risk factors that are thought to combine to help cause a disorder. The more factors present, the greater the risk of developing the disorder.
Multidimensional risk perspective
A part of the brain, that helps various bodily functions, including eating and hunger.
Hypothalamus
A brain region that produces hunger when activated.
Lateral Hypothalamus
A brain region that depresses hunger when activated.
Ventromedial Hypothalamus
The weight level that a person is predisposed to maintain, controlled in part by the hypothalamus.
Weight Set Point
A family system in which members are over involved with each other’s affairs and over concerned about each other’s welfare.
Enmeshed Family Pattern
