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DRUG-INDUCED PSYCHOSIS

The psychotic state that results from abusing drugs.

DUAL-ASPECT PHYSICALISM

The solution theoretically about the mind and body problem claiming ther are 2 aspects of reality.

DURAGESIC

Trade name for fentanyl.

DYNAMIC

1. pertaining to force. 2. Continuously changing. 3. Desxcribes systems of psychology emphasising motivation, mental processes and compexities of force

DYNAMIC TOUCH

Being able to perceive an object by wielding and manipulating it.

DYSEXECUTIVE SYNDROME (DES)

A collection of symptoms that involve impaired executive control over actions. Caused by frontal lobe brain damage.

DYSMNESIA

Memory impairment that be a discrete episode or part of a chronic condition. Also called dysmnesic syndrome.

DYSPHORIA

Mood characterised by sadness.

DYSTHYMIC DISORDER

A depressive disorder featuring a depressed mood more often than not that keeps up for at least 2 years.

DALE'S PRINCIPLE

theory posed by British neurophysiologist Henry Hallet Dale.

DARVON

noun. A brand name for propoxyphene.

DATE-RAPE DRUG

a drug which is slyly given to inhibit awareness or memory for the intent of carnal exploitation of the sufferer.

DCNIONOLATOR N

with regard to demonology, the step-by-step analysis of the belief in evil entities and demons, often described in folktales and

DEATH TABOO (DEATH TABU)

the virtue that death is so hazardous and scary a topic that someone ought not just abstain from contact with

DECATHEXIS

Psychoanalytic theory. The withdrawal of libido from objects in the external world. Compare caihexis.

DALLENBACH STIMULATOR

introduced by American psychologist Karl M. Dellenbach, a tool used to supply regulated thermal stimulants to the skin.

DARWINIAN ALGORITHM

proposed by Charles Darwin, with regard to evolutionary developmental psychology, an inborn setting-specific mental program that grew to attain certain

DATIVE

noun. A set of pronouns, nouns and their phrases that establishes the indirect object of the verb. With regard to

DDAVP

noun. A brand name for desmopressin

DEATH TRANCE

a condition of obvious paused motion in a person, marked by little physical movement