Month: April 2019

What is Dissociative Amnesia? Dissociative amnesia is a disorder, the main symptom of which is memory loss, usually for recent important events. It is not caused by an organic mental illness and is too pronounced

What is Child Autism? Childhood autism itself includes autistic disorder, infantile autism, infantile psychosis, and Kanner syndrome. The first descriptions of this disorder were made by Henry Maudsley (1867). In 1943, Leo Kanner, in his

What is Dementia in diseases caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)? Dementia is a chronic or progressive brain disease in which the higher cortical functions are impaired, including memory, thinking, orientation, understanding, counting, learning

What is Dementia in Pick’s disease? Dementia is a chronic or progressive brain disorder in which higher cortical functions are impaired, including memory, thinking, orientation, understanding, counting, learning ability, language and judgment. Consciousness is not