Structured Summary
Abstract
Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.
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Classification
Narrower headings
- Anxiety Disorders
- Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders
- Dissociative Disorders
- Elimination Disorders
- Feeding and Eating Disorders
- Mood Disorders
- Motor Disorders
- Neurocognitive Disorders
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Neurotic Disorders
- Paraphilic Disorders
- Personality Disorders
- Psychological Sexual Dysfunctions
- Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
- Sleep Wake Disorders
- Somatoform Disorders
- Substance-Related Disorders
- Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
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Synonyms
17 entry terms
- Mental Illness
- Psychiatric Diseases
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Psychiatric Illness
- Illness, Mental
- Mental Disorder
- Mental Illnesses
- Psychiatric Disease
- Psychiatric Disorder
- Psychiatric Illnesses
- Behavior Disorders
- Diagnosis, Psychiatric
- Mental Disorders, Severe
- Psychiatric Diagnosis
- Mental Disorder, Severe
- Severe Mental Disorder
- Severe Mental Disorders
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Aspects Covered
31 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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Tree Number
- F03w
AMA Style
References
- National Library of Medicine. Mental Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001523. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001523
- Mental Disorders. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder
- Mental Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12135