Signs and symptoms A score of 70 or less at a reduced individual intelligence test. Slowly reaching developmental milestones (moving, speaking) and social and emotional immaturity. Poor performance in school (almost) all subjects. People with mental retardation have limited mental abilities. The disorder is most noticeable during the school year. Mild mental retardation is sometimes [...]
Signs and symptoms Seems to live in his own world. Exhibits bizarre reactions to people and small things in the environment. Very difficult communication. Can not cuddle, sometimes even hatred of physical contact. Almost complete lack of any social contact. Infantile autism is one of the most serious mental disorders of childhood. The autistic child [...]
Adolescence is a time for a child of extensive psychological and physical changes. Some have labeled the adolescent as a child in the body of an adult. A classic situation is where the adolescent unreasonably critical in terms of his appearance. “I hate my nose!” “Do I look fat in these pants do not?” Almost [...]
Signs and symptoms Most of the day or the day a depressed or irritable mood. Apparent loss of interest in almost all activities. Changes in appetite and weight (usually loss of appetite leading to weight loss, increased appetite sometimes). At night, difficulty sleeping or excessive sleeping during the day. Every day tired and lack energy. [...]
It is tragic that every day some young people‘s life takes away. Although for most of the twentieth century the percentage of suicides increased with age and reached a maximum in middle age, this pattern began to change in the sixties. Suicide is now one of the three leading causes of death among people between [...]
Signs and symptoms The girl is sexually active. Late menstruation or stayed away. Swelling or soreness of the breasts. Nausea, especially in the mornings. Weight gain, especially around the waist. Suddenly not like certain foods. Because some teenagers are sexually active, it is important to ensure that every teenager is fully aware how pregnancy occurs [...]
Signs and symptoms An irrational fear of becoming fat. Excessive dieting and exercise take. Significant weight loss or gain weight during a period of growth. Refusing a normal body weight. Absence of menstrual periods. Exaggerated concern about food, calories and food preparation. Many teens begin a diet, but give it a few days or weeks [...]
Signs and symptoms Repeated periods of great food. Self-induced vomiting or laxative abuse. The weight is approximately within normal limits. Fear of getting fat Bulimia, eating enormous amounts of food – usually very high-calorie sweets – in short time. This stuff can go on until it is interrupted by a feeling of saturation or pain [...]
Signs and symptoms Numerous bruises. Several old fractures. Unexplained injuries. Pain in the region of the genitals. Sudden changes in behavior. Loss of appetite. Problems at school. Abdominal pain. It is often difficult for teens than for adults to endure violence, because they react emotionally intense life, low self-esteem and sometimes do not have parents [...]
Like children and young people often find it difficult to adapt to the changes in their bodies and their lives, is also the case in the elderly. The changes in the elderly are physically and can lead to decreased mobility, sexual problems or a feeling of life that can not. Changes in living conditions can [...]
Signs and symptoms Loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities. Being sad feeling. Loss of appetite and weight loss. Sleep disorders. Loss of energy, fatigue. Lack of concentration, memory loss. In older people depression can be difficult to identify. Often shows an elderly with depression are not the typical image of a depression. It [...]
Signs and symptoms Delusions that can last months or even longer, and relate to real life situations, such as the idea should be followed, poisoned, or have a disease to be deceived by the partner. Paranoid symptoms and hallucinations are occasionally in older people, sometimes people who are deaf. When paranoid symptoms, it is often [...]
Signs and symptoms Confusion about day and night (reversal of day and night). Lie awake before falling asleep. Often at night, wake up. Sleep disorders are a common problem in older people, especially those with mental disorders. Many people have trouble sleeping advanced age. The sleep lasts longer than in young people, older people sleep [...]
Although there are many types of personality disorders exist, they all reflect the inability of the requirements and limitations of the outside world to accept. These defects may disturb someone’s behavior, but also his contacts with family and people at work. Before the diagnosis of personality disorder can be accepted, doctors must rule out physical [...]
Signs and symptoms (at least five of those listed) Things are sliding. Grumpy and irritable behavior, arguing. Tend to work slowly and deliberately to function poorly at work that they do not really want to do. Protests (unreasonable) because he believed that everyone unreasonable demands. ‘Forget’ obligations. Believes he is doing his job better than [...]
Signs and symptoms Disrespect for the rules and demands placed by society. Repeated violations of the rights of others. Unlawful, improper conduct. Disregard for the truth. For parents, neglect or mistreatment of their child or children. Physical violence, abuse of partner. No permanent job. No fixed address. Someone who is very anti-social behavior, shows disrespect [...]
Signs and symptoms Relationships that seem very intimate, but in reality very superficial. Highly theatrical and engaging demeanor, emotions are shown in an exaggerated manner. Egocentric. Seek constant attention and praise. Sexualization of relationships. Tolerates frustration difficult. This behavior often leads to stormy and unsatisfactory relationships with others. It is much more common in women [...]
Signs and symptoms Suspicious and very sensitive to whether or not actual insults, hurts and deceptions by others. Often gives the blame to others. Does often mysterious. No sense of humor. Exaggerated sense of self-importance. People who are overly paranoid behavior that worried others “are out to take their bite. Because they spend much energy [...]
Klachten en verschijnselen Afstandelijkheid en kil gedrag. Gebrek aan hechte vriendschappen. Isolement. Gebrek aan energie. Onverschillig voor lof of kritiek van anderen. Mensen met een schizoïd gedrag blijken anderen niet of nauwelijks nodig te hebben en gaan meestal hun eigen gang. Soms leven ze vrijwel volledig geïsoleerd, zonder vriendschappen, en blijven op een afstand van [...]
Signs and symptoms Disorderly or magical thinking. Strange way of speaking (or vague imagery). Misconceptions about the relationship between things (knowing unusual meaning to normal events); Suspiciousness. People with schizophrenia symptoms are similar to schizophrenics in their peculiar way of thinking and speaking, and their strange worldview, but their symptoms are not severe enough to [...]
Signs and symptoms Chronic difficulties in maintaining a positive self-image. Mood swings. Problems in relationships with other people. Impulsive, often destructive behavior (such as suicide attempts). People with borderline personality can be regarded as having a “stable instability“. They have chronic problems such as mood swings, are suddenly angry, sad or anxious, or feel “empty [...]
Signs and symptoms Exaggerated sense of importance, and mighty talented. Looking admiration. Is indifferent to emotions and needs of others. Rejection can be hard to handle. Someone with narcissistic personality have an exaggerated idea of his own uniqueness, importance and gifts. When he is rejected, he exhibits excessive anger or shame. He finds it difficult [...]
Klachten en verschijnselen Overdreven angst afgewezen of vernederd te worden, die leidt tot het vermijden van nauwe banden met andere mensen. Lage dunk van zichzelf. Vluchtgedrag wordt zo genoemd, omdat mensen met een dergelijk gedrag zich zoveel zorgen maken over hun eigen tekortkomingen dat de daaruit voortvloeiende angst voor afwijzing tot gevolg heeft dat ze [...]
Signs and symptoms Fever. Vague chest pain. Joint pain. Abnormally rapid heartbeat. Shortness of breath. Fluid retention. The heart consists of three layers of heart tissue. The middle of this hot myocardium. The myocardium is the heart muscle. This can distract you from the name. It is Greek for heart muscle. When there is acute [...]
Signs and symptoms Chest pain that radiates to the left of the neck, shoulder, back or upper abdomen. Shortness of breath. Setting up the abdomen. The pericardium is nothing more than the bag where the heart is in it. The inside of the pericardium is very smooth, and the exterior is very sturdy material. Acute [...]
When talking about the vascular system, blood vessels, which meant all the blood flowing. The name is derived from the Latin word vasculum. This means keg. The vascular system consists of two divisions. The first division is small, and starts on the right side of the heart and brings blood to the lungs, and then [...]
Signs and symptoms Pain in the legs, especially calves and feet that occurs when walking and disappears shortly after stopping the activity (intermittent claudication). At rest, numbness or pain in feet or toes. Ulcers or gangrene of the feet or toes. Arteriosclerosis is that the arteries will change. In most cases this is the first [...]
Signs and symptoms Pain in the affected area. Pale, cold skin. Numbness. An embolus is a clot or perhaps some fragments of an atherosclerotic plaque that has accumulated losgesloten the place where he belongs. Then he will sit in the way of a blood vessel. A thrombus and an embolus, as many people think, not [...]
Signs and symptoms Often not. Throbbing sensation in the abdomen. When a patient has aneurysm, the artery dilates be. This is not normal, and the weakened wall will be stretched when the blood flows through them. This will create an egg-shaped bulge. An aneurysm can occur in any blood vessel. Similarly, the large vessels of [...]
Signs and symptoms Tenderness and pain in the affected area. Redness and swelling. When a clot in a vein, inflammation associated with this deviation is called thrombophlebitis. The name is derived entirely from Greek. For clot (thrombosis), venous (phleps) and inflammation (itis). Often the name conveniently shortened to phlebitis, as the inflammatory component is small, [...]
Signs and symptoms Dilated veins easily visible under the skin of the legs. Brownish-gray skin discoloration at the ankles. ‘Open leg’ around the ankles. Varicose veins are enlarged veins that are very close to the surface of the housing. Each vein has the potential to be varicose. In the legs and feet are most varicose [...]
Signs and symptoms Fingers and toes turn white when exposed to cold, including a stabbing pain, the skin may be red or blue before it returns to normal. Reinout’s disease, named after the French physician who this disease, more than a century ago, discovered the following changes which occur in the circulation in hands and [...]
Buerger’s disease, named after the American physician Leo Buerger, the symptoms of this disease described in 1908, is a rare disorder where the blood vessels of the hands and feet ill. The skin of hands and feet become brittle and eventually develop pain and ulcers, and possibly amputation. This happens because the blood vessels that [...]
When the skin, including the tissues under it, freeze it mentions freezing. It happens most often at the hands, feet, cheeks, nose and ears. Anyone can suffer from frostbite. This often happens only when someone has a longer period of cold exposure. People who have an abnormality in the blood are more at risk. How [...]
In the male genital sexuality play an important role. These play an important role in sexual relationships. The genitalia of the people most important biological functions. This is because the production of sperm. It is also important that this sperm to the female sex organs is transported. As with women, there is an overlap with [...]
The testicles should ensure that sperm are produced, which are necessary for reproduction, and hormones that are produced. These hormones have a very large part in maintaining the masculine appearance. The testicles are well placed for the temperature. It is necessary that a cold temperature for sperm production. Because the testicles in the scrotum temperature [...]
Signs and symptoms Sudden and often severe pain in one testicle. A testicle in the scrotum is pulled to high. Nausea and vomiting. Feeling dizzy. Swollen testicle. Fever. Alarming signs Severe pain in one testicle, which suddenly or after a major exercise begins. In the scrotum, both testicles suspended from the spermatic cord. This ensures [...]
Signs and symptoms Infertility. Loss of sexual desire. Delayed puberty or delays in the development of male characteristics. If someone has aspermie, this means that no sperm cells are produced. It is also possible that testosterone is not produced. This disease can arise from chromosomal abnormalities, which are present from birth. Problems of sexual maturation [...]
Signs and symptoms Usually severe pain in the scrotum that gradually worsens over several hours or days. Fever. Swelling of the testicle or epididymis. On each testicle is a tube that will carry the sperm into the vas deferens. This is called the epididymis. When there is an inflammation of the epididymis is called epididymitis [...]
Signs and symptoms Swelling or a lump in the scrotum. Pain or tenderness at the site. Swelling of the scrotum can occur for various reasons. It is by tumors, cysts, an accident, caused by inflammation and inguinal hernia. Causing the tumors to malignant, but benign. The tumors from the testicle itself operate in most cases [...]
Signs and symptoms Soft-touch swelling in the scrotum, usually not painful. The word comes from the Greek words hydrokèle Hydro, water, and that Kele, which means tumor. Hydrokèle of a testicle, a quantity of fluid within the membrane that surrounds the testicle. Normally, this space between this membrane and a small amount of testicular fluid. [...]
Klachten en verschijnselen Zwelling in het scrotum, meestal aan de linkerkant. De zwelling is niet pijnlijk en voelt aan als een zakje met wormen. Dit gevoel kan in liggende houding bijna geheel verdwijnen. Wanneer iemand last heeft van een varicokèle, dan betekent dit dat er een zwelling in het scrotum is en dat dit de [...]
Signs and symptoms Pain in the scrotum. Swelling in the scrotum, usually on one side. Heaviness in the scrotum. When there is inflammation of the testicle or testicles is sometimes called a called orchitis. This inflammation occurs in most cases by a bacterial infection or the mumps. The orchitis may also occur after an infection [...]
Signs and symptoms The scrotum contains one instead of two testicles. In the abdomen, the testicles or testes develop, when the boy still in his mother’s. The testicles will descend into their normal position in the scrotum. In general, this is four weeks before birth. For some boys this does not happen, and they simply [...]
Signs and symptoms Lump or swelling in the scrotum. Local pain or tenderness. Heavy feeling in one testicle. Cancer of the testicle or testicular cancer often begins in the cells that produce sperm. First symptom is a hard lump on the testicle to feel the size of a pea. This lump is usually not painful [...]
The penis is not just a sexual organ, but it also causes the transport of urine. These two functions can be affected by an infection or another condition transverse lie. The urethra is located right in the middle of the penis and runs along the length of the penis. Urine comes from the kidneys through [...]
Signs and symptoms Painful urination (burning or itching). Frequent urination, or severe urgency. Muddy, smelly and bloody urine (sometimes). Pain in the lower abdomen (sometimes). Fever (sometimes in slightly). Cystitis is an inflammation of the bladder, usually caused by an infection. The name comes from the Greek word bladder cyst that means. In exceptional cases, [...]
Signs and symptoms Warts that occur on the penis or his dick just like warts elsewhere on the body. They are caused by a virus. This is the warts are also contagious. Warts on the genitals are, can also be easily transmitted during sexual intercourse to their partner Diagnosis. The diagnosis of penile [...]
Signs and symptoms Burning and painful sensation during urination or ejaculation. Frequent urge to urinate. Discharge from the tip of the penis. An inflammation of the urethra is called urethritis one. The urethra is the tube through which urine and semen through. In most cases, the disease caused by a sexual organ. Eg gonorrhea or [...]
Signs and symptoms Difficult urination. Painful urination. When a constriction occurs in the urethra can be so bad that it is less easy to pass urine. It is not often. There are several reasons for this narrowing. It might occur when the penis is injured, or that after an illness caused scar tissue. This scar [...]
Signs and symptoms Irritation and redness at the tip of the penis. When the glans or tip of the penis, this is an inflammation called balanitis. Balanitis is more common in men who are not circumcised. This is because the foreskin is easy to move. There are different types of disease balanitis. The causes of [...]
Signs and symptoms Sometimes painful curvature of the penis during erection, which intercourse difficult or even impossible. Peyronie’s disease is a disease named after the French physician. Peyronie’s disease is a disease in which scar tissue around the cylindrical structures is formed. Why this scar tissue is created, is contemporary yet known. After a while [...]
Signs and symptoms Pimple-like, painless ulcer on the penis, especially on top. Other forms of painless sores or warts on the penis. It is (fortunately) rare for a cancer of the penis is seen. When this occurs mainly in men who are uncircumcised, and poor cleaning. Over time, things that grow on the penis penis [...]
Signs and symptoms Painful swelling of the glans of an uncircumcised penis. Retracted skin, lacking the glans of the penis can be drawn so as to cover the glans. Alarming phenomenon Great swelling of the glans of an uncircumcised penis. When the foreskin over the glans can not be drawn, one speaks of a Spanish [...]
Signs and symptoms Inability to hold urine. Involuntary urination when coughing, sneezing, laughing, running or other physical activities where the abdominal muscles are involved (this is called stress incontinence). When people do not stop their urine until they decide they are going to pee, this is called urinary incontinence. Urinary incontinence can occur for various [...]
In the pelvis below the bladder is the prostate gland. The prostate gland is wrapped around the urethra. The prostate gland has a major role in the production of additional fluids are added to the sperm. These fluids are needed for the sperm to survive classification acidic environment of the vagina. The older a man [...]
Signs and symptoms Frequent urination. Peeing is hard going. Less powerful beam when passing urine. Often at night to urinate. Dripping. Alarming phenomenon Urination is no longer possible In the pelvis below the bladder is the prostate gland. The prostate gland is wrapped around the urethra. The prostate gland has a major role in the [...]
Klachten en verschijnselen Plotseling een matige tot hoge koorts. Koude rillingen. Hevige aandrang om te plassen. Pijn onder in de rug en in het gebied tussen de anus en de testikels. Pijnlijk of branderig gevoel bij het plassen. Bloed in de urine (soms). Wanneer er een infectie van de prostaat optreedt welke acuut optreedt, noemt [...]
Signs and symptoms Frequent and difficult urination. Intense urge to urinate. Pelvic pain and genital areas. Fever, chills, painful ejaculation, and sometimes blood in the urine. If someone has a chronic infection of the prostate is sometimes called a called chronic prostatitis. Chronic prostatitis may result from an acute prostatitis. In most cases, the symptoms [...]
Signs and symptoms Less powerful beam when passing urine. Dripping. Difficult to get going in symptoms. Pain in the back or hips. Painful urination or ejaculation. Blood or pus in the urine. Prostate cancer occurs in about one in every hundred men. The symptoms of prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia, a common disease in [...]
Signs and symptoms See themselves as incompetent or helpless. Avoid personal responsibility and leave it to others, even for important decisions in life. Is chronically incapable of the normal requirements of life to meet, but is not mentally retarded. People who suffer from a pathological dependence let other people take charge of their lives. They [...]
Klachten en verschijnselen Perfectionist in all areas and rigid. Symptoms begin early in childhood. At least five of the following characteristics are present: Is such a perfectionist that he is struggling to finish a task. Cares about details – rules, regulations, lists and schedules – and often loses sight of the main. Shows a strong [...]
Emotions and feelings on to do after a bereavement has occurred is called mourning. This process of the grief process is what is called bereavement.
Symptoms The tightness of the chest or the feeling that the throat is constricted. Sleeping problems ranging from insomnia to the desire to constantly sleep. Weight loss or gain. Difficulty concentrating. Confusion. Headaches or other physical complaints. Shy away from social contacts. Lack of interest in daily activities such as cooking, shopping or personal hygiene. [...]
Denial. At first you can hardly believe that the beloved person is really dead or gone. You will be confused by your thoughts, and you can barely concentrate. You can not listen, the performance of you will be less. Despair. The loss could hurt so much that the pain in the body is feeling. His [...]
Sleep disorders are among the most frequently mentioned problems of life. It is important to remember that our sleep pattern changes over the course of life. Not all sleep is the same. By measuring the electrical waves that are emitted by the brains, researchers have found that different stages of sleep. These stages times in [...]
Signs and symptoms At night, unable to sleep. Difficulty falling asleep. At night, waking up with an adult. Daytime fatigue. When there is a lack of sleep is called insomnia this. Patients who have often sleep a little but not enough to assuage their fatigue. When you sleep, you do not realize how long this [...]