KIRKBRIDE, THOMAS (1809-83)
Kirkbride, a pioneer in American psychiatry, obtained his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, then served as physician in…
KOFFKA, KURT (1886-1941)
Koffka, the major spokesman for Gestalt psychology, received his psychological training at the University of Berlin and obtained his Ph.D.…
KORSAKOFF’S SYNDROME (Amne- sic-Confabulatory Syndrome)
An organic psychosis occurring primarily in chronic alcoholics and victims of severe blows on the head (head trauma) but also…
KRAEPELIN, EMIL (1856-1926)
Rraepelin, the great classifier of mental illnesses, was bom in Neustrelitz, Germany and studied medicine at Wurzburg and Munich. He…
KRAFFT-EBING, RICHARD VON(1840-1902)
Krafft-Ebing, chiefly noted for his study of sexual pathology, was born in Mannheim, Germany, and studied at Prague, Heidelberg, and…
KINESTHETIC SENSE (Movement Sense)
Kinesthesis, literally “feeling of movement,” is the sense that provides the brain with information concerning the contracting and stretching of…
KINETIC DISTURBANCES
Used in this book to denote disturbances of movement found in either organic or functional disorders.Akinesia is a reduction of…
KATASCXUALITY
a sexual preference for dead people or human beings with animal like characteristics . See necrophilia.
KETOCONAZOLE
It is an antifungal agent that has been suggested as a treatment for depression resistant to conventional drugs, due to…
KINESIMCTER
An instrument for measuring the cutaneous sensation of the body. Also an instrument for measuring the extent of a movement
KOHLBERG, LAWRENCE
work was especially important in the fields of cognitive developmental psychology and education, he posed hypothetical moral dilemmas to children…
KRUSKAL-SHEPARD SCALING
The dissimilarities are represented by distances between items in a high dimensional space. Larger distances indicated greater dissimilarity and multidimensional…
KATZ INDEX OF ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING
Baseline measurements provide useful feedback when compared to periodic or subsequent measurements. It is when an individual is rated regarding…
KINESIOLOGY
A discipline that encompasses all the sciences as well as the professional skills for the application of sport and exercise…
KINSHIP MIGRATION
The movement of families, either all at once as a group or in phases as individual members or subgroups from…
KNEE-JERK REFLEX
A test of integrity of the nervous system also called patellar reflex and also pendular knee jerk, it is a…