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Hoarding disorder ( HD) or Plyushkin 's disorder, is a mental disorder [7] characterised by persistent difficulty in parting with possessions and engaging in excessive acquisition of items that are not needed or for which no space is available. This results in severely cluttered living spaces, distress, and impairment in personal, family ...
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]
The worried well are within ICD-10 code Z71.1—"Person with feared complaint in whom no diagnosis is made." [9] [10] They are distinct from those suffering from hypochondriasis (health anxiety), whose health concerns are chronic and rise to the level of a psychiatric condition ; [11] in contrast, anxiety experienced by worried well patients is ...
62715-8. The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders ( SCARED) is a self-report screening questionnaire for anxiety disorders developed in 1997. [1] The SCARED is intended for youth, 9–18 years old, [1] and their parents to complete in about 10 minutes. [2] It can discriminate between depression and anxiety, as well as among ...
Frequency. Rare [2] Deaths. ~4% risk of death [2] Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is a type of brain inflammation caused by antibodies. [4] Early symptoms may include fever, headache, and feeling tired. [1] [2] This is then typically followed by psychosis which presents with false beliefs (delusions) and seeing or hearing things that others do ...
Mixed anxiety–depressive disorder ( MADD) is a diagnostic category that defines patients who have both anxiety and depressive symptoms of limited and equal intensity accompanied by at least some autonomic nervous system features. Autonomic features are involuntary physical symptoms usually caused by an overactive nervous system, such as panic ...
The Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) was designed by William W. K. Zung M.D. (1929–1992) a professor of psychiatry from Duke University, to quantify a patient's level of anxiety. [1] [2] The SAS is a 20-item self-report assessment device built to measure anxiety levels, based on scoring in 4 groups of manifestations: cognitive, autonomic ...
LOINC. 69737-5. The Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 ( GAD-7) is a self-reported questionnaire for screening and severity measuring of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). [1] The GAD-7 is normally used in outpatient and primary care settings for referral to a psychiatrist pending outcome. [2]