| Eponyms in category: Psychology and psychiatry |
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| Abels' test |
| The traditional number-sorting test for evaluating the capacity for concentration, and for diagnosing disturbances of concentration. |
| Ahasuerus' reaction |
| A variant of Münchhausen’s syndrome. |
| Ahasuerus' syndrome (Münchhausen's syndrome) |
| A type of malingering or factitious disorder in which the patient, usually a vagrant, wander from hospital to hospital, feigning severe illness of dramatic and emergency nature in order to be admitted. |
| Alice in Wonderland syndrome |
| A psychopathological syndrome of distorted space, time and body image. |
| Anton's syndrome (Anton-Babinski syndrome) |
| A condition characterised by denial of blindness with resort to confabulation by blind person. |
| Anton-Babinski syndrome |
| A condition characterised by denial of blindness with resort to confabulation by blind person. |
| Asperger's syndrome |
| A serious disorder resembling autism. |
| Asperger’s disorder (Asperger's syndrome) |
| A serious disorder resembling autism. |
| Azima battery |
| A projective technique using expressive media designed to uncover attitudes, motivations, and defense mechanisms of persons hospitalised for psychiatric conditions.
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| Bach's flower power |
| A system of quackery in which mental problems are treated with extracts from plants. |
| Bachblüte (German) (Bach's flower power) |
| A system of quackery in which mental problems are treated with extracts from plants. |
| Balint group |
| Self-help group for people mainly formed by a small number of doctors interested in improving their relationships with their patients and coordinated by a specially trained psychiatrist. |
| Bamberger's disease I |
| Clonic spasms of the leg muscles, producing tics and a peculiar jumping or springing motion. |
| Baron Münchhausen’s syndrome (Münchhausen's syndrome) |
| A type of malingering or factitious disorder in which the patient, usually a vagrant, wander from hospital to hospital, feigning severe illness of dramatic and emergency nature in order to be admitted. |
| Binet-Simon test |
| Intelligence test used particularly on children aged 3 to 15 years.
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| Binet-Simon-Norden-Bobertag intelligence test (Binet-Simon test) |
| Intelligence test used particularly on children aged 3 to 15 years.
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| Bleuler's psycho syndrome |
| A collective term for a variety of psychopathological and neuropsychological symptom complexes observed as a consequence of diffuse brain damages. |
| Bonhoeffer's sign (Bonhoeffer's symptom) |
| A mental symptom complex, explained by a defined metabolic, infectious, traumatic or toxic poisoning (noxe) directly or indirectly damaging the central nervous system. |
| Bonhoeffer's symptom |
| A mental symptom complex, explained by a defined metabolic, infectious, traumatic or toxic poisoning (noxe) directly or indirectly damaging the central nervous system. |
| Bonhoeffer's symptom complex (Bonhoeffer's symptom) |
| A mental symptom complex, explained by a defined metabolic, infectious, traumatic or toxic poisoning (noxe) directly or indirectly damaging the central nervous system. |
| Bonhoeffer's syndrome (Bonhoeffer's symptom) |
| A mental symptom complex, explained by a defined metabolic, infectious, traumatic or toxic poisoning (noxe) directly or indirectly damaging the central nervous system. |
| Bonhoeffer's type of reaction (Bonhoeffer's symptom) |
| A mental symptom complex, explained by a defined metabolic, infectious, traumatic or toxic poisoning (noxe) directly or indirectly damaging the central nervous system. |
| Braid's strabismus |
| Induction of hypnosis by turning the eyes simultaneously upward and inward. |
| Braidism (Mesmerism) |
| Refers to therapy using hypnosis or hypniotic suggestion. |
| Briquet disorder (Briquet's syndrome I) |
| A personality disorder in which alcoholism and somatisation disorder occur. |
| Briquet's syndrome I |
| A personality disorder in which alcoholism and somatisation disorder occur. |
| Briquet's syndrome II |
| Hysterical paralysis of the diaphragm with aphonia and apnoea. |
| Brissaud-Marie syndrome (Briquet's syndrome I) |
| A personality disorder in which alcoholism and somatisation disorder occur. |
| Brissaud’s disease (Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome) |
| A rare psychoneurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterised by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stottering. |
| Brissaud’s syndrome (Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome) |
| A rare psychoneurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterised by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stottering. |
| Brodie's disease I |
| Hysterical pseudofracture of the spine. |
| Capgras' delusion (Capgras' syndrome) |
| The delusion that a close relative or friend has been replaced by an impostor, an exact double, despite recognition of familiarity in appearance and behaviour. |
| Capgras' illusion (Capgras' syndrome) |
| The delusion that a close relative or friend has been replaced by an impostor, an exact double, despite recognition of familiarity in appearance and behaviour. |
| Capgras' paranoia (Capgras' syndrome) |
| The delusion that a close relative or friend has been replaced by an impostor, an exact double, despite recognition of familiarity in appearance and behaviour. |
| Capgras' syndrome |
| The delusion that a close relative or friend has been replaced by an impostor, an exact double, despite recognition of familiarity in appearance and behaviour. |
| Charcot's zones |
| Hysterogenic zones.
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| Cheshire Cat syndrome |
| A medical eponym taken from Alice in Wonderland. |
| Cinderella complex |
| An unconscious desire to be taken care of by others, based primarily on a fear of being independent. |
| Cinderella stepmother syndrome |
| Overcompensation by a stepmother in an effort to find acceptance in a new family situation. |
| Cinderella's syndrome |
| False accusation by adopted children of being mistreated or neglected by their adoptive mothers. |
| Clérambault's syndrome |
| A condition in which a woman becomes deluded that a certain man is in love with her. |
| Clérambault-Kandinsky syndrome (Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome) |
| A confusing clinical entity in which the patient believes his mind is being controlled by someone else or external forces |
| Critchley's syndrome (Kleine-Levin syndrome) |
| A strange condition of unknown aetiology which almost exclusively affects young males aged 15-25 years. |
| de Clérambault's syndrome (Clérambault's syndrome) |
| A condition in which a woman becomes deluded that a certain man is in love with her. |
| Dejerine-Lichtheim phenomenon or symptom (Lichtheim's sign in aphasia) |
| A phenomenon seen in subcortical motor aphasia. |
| Ekbom's syndrome (Wittmaack-Ekbom syndrome) |
| An unpleasant creeping sensation in the lower limbs, when the patient is at rest, inducing an intolerable restlessness and a desire to move the legs to relieve it. |
| Ekbom's syndrome II |
| A delusional syndrome in which the patient imagines the symptoms of parasitic infestation of the skin.
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| Falret's syndrome |
| Manic-depressive psychosis. |
| Flower power (Bach's flower power) |
| A system of quackery in which mental problems are treated with extracts from plants. |
| Forel's "word salad" |
| Confused speech occurring in schizophrenia.
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| Ganser's syndrome |
| A factitious disorder, characterised by the individual mimicking behaviour he or she thinks is typical of a psychosis, providing nonsensical or wrong answers to questions, and doing things incorrectly. |
| Ganser-Dämmerzustand (German) (Ganser's syndrome) |
| A factitious disorder, characterised by the individual mimicking behaviour he or she thinks is typical of a psychosis, providing nonsensical or wrong answers to questions, and doing things incorrectly. |
| Gerstmann syndrome II (Gerstmann's syndrome) |
| Gyrus angularis syndrome with right-left disorientation. |
| Gerstmann's syndrome |
| Gyrus angularis syndrome with right-left disorientation. |
| Gerstmann-Badal syndrome (Gerstmann's syndrome) |
| Gyrus angularis syndrome with right-left disorientation. |
| Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome |
| A rare psychoneurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterised by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stottering. |
| Guinon's disease (Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome) |
| A rare psychoneurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterised by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stottering. |
| Guinon’s disease (Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome) |
| A rare psychoneurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterised by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stottering. |
| Guinon’s myospasmia impulsiva. (Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome) |
| A rare psychoneurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterised by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stottering. |
| Huck Finn syndrome (Huckleberry Finn's syndrome I) |
| The condition or act of a shirking or neglecting one's duties or obligations, as when staying away from school without permission, arising from parental rejection, feelings of rejection, and superior intelligence. |
| Huck Finn syndrome (Huckleberry Finn's syndrome II) |
| Social and pyschological maladjustment of normal or bright children of retarded parents. |
| Huckleberry Finn's syndrome I |
| The condition or act of a shirking or neglecting one's duties or obligations, as when staying away from school without permission, arising from parental rejection, feelings of rejection, and superior intelligence. |
| Huckleberry Finn's syndrome II |
| Social and pyschological maladjustment of normal or bright children of retarded parents. |
| Kahlbaum's syndrome I |
| A no longer used term for a hereditary, chronic form of schizophrenia. |
| Kahlbaum's syndrome II |
| Continuous and purposeless repetition of words and sentences that are either meaningless or have no significance, in a certain rhythm. |
| Kandinsky complex (Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome) |
| A confusing clinical entity in which the patient believes his mind is being controlled by someone else or external forces |
| Kandinsky-Clérambault complex (Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome) |
| A confusing clinical entity in which the patient believes his mind is being controlled by someone else or external forces |
| Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome |
| A confusing clinical entity in which the patient believes his mind is being controlled by someone else or external forces |
| Kanner's syndrome (Asperger's syndrome) |
| A serious disorder resembling autism. |
| Kleine-Levin syndrome |
| A strange condition of unknown aetiology which almost exclusively affects young males aged 15-25 years. |
| Kleine-Levin-Critchley syndrome (Kleine-Levin syndrome) |
| A strange condition of unknown aetiology which almost exclusively affects young males aged 15-25 years. |
| Kleist's apraxia |
| A disturbance characterised by the inability to draw, write, or construct two- or three-dimensional geometric figures with matchsticks. |
| Korsakoff's disease (Korsakoff's psychosis and syndrome) |
| A syndrome characterized by a severe memory defect, especially for recent event, for which the patient compensates by confabulation |
| Korsakoff's psychosis and syndrome |
| A syndrome characterized by a severe memory defect, especially for recent event, for which the patient compensates by confabulation |
| Korsakoff’s psychosis (Korsakoff's psychosis and syndrome) |
| A syndrome characterized by a severe memory defect, especially for recent event, for which the patient compensates by confabulation |
| Korsakoff’s symptom complex (Korsakoff's psychosis and syndrome) |
| A syndrome characterized by a severe memory defect, especially for recent event, for which the patient compensates by confabulation |
| Kraepelin's classification |
| A classification of mental illness according to symptoms, causes and course. |
| Kraepelin's disease I |
| Systematizing delusions developed without dementia or hallucinations. |
| Kraepelin's disease II |
| Ponopathia. A neurosis, for example neurasthenia, triggered by tense activity.
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| Kraepelin's system (Kraepelin's classification) |
| A classification of mental illness according to symptoms, causes and course. |
| Kraepelin-Morel disease |
| Schizophrenia.
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| Kretschmer's paranoia |
| A sustained disease picture in sensitive and insecure persons. The condition reminds of schizophrenia, but is curable.
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| Kretschmer's syndrome |
| A collective term for a persistent vegetative state seen in patients with loss of functions of the pallium. |
| Kretschmer’s sensitive paranoia (Kretschmer's paranoia) |
| A sustained disease picture in sensitive and insecure persons. The condition reminds of schizophrenia, but is curable.
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| Kussmaul's aphasia |
| Voluntary mutism. |
| Lasègue's syndrome I |
| An obsolete eponym for persecution mania. |
| Lasègue's syndrome II |
| A disturbance in conversion hysteria marked by hysterical anaesthesia with neuromuscular paralysis of an extremity when the eyes are closed. |
| Lasègue-Falret syndrome |
| Association psychosis syndrome prevalent among women living more or less confined, |
| Lichtheim Sprachschema (German) (Lichtheim's language form) |
| An ingenious form used for the understanding of normal course of speech, in which the process is rendered as a reflex arc. |
| Lichtheim's language form |
| An ingenious form used for the understanding of normal course of speech, in which the process is rendered as a reflex arc. |
| Lichtheim's sign in aphasia |
| A phenomenon seen in subcortical motor aphasia. |
| Lichtheim’s disease (Lichtheim's sign in aphasia) |
| A phenomenon seen in subcortical motor aphasia. |
| Lichtheim’s syndrome (Lichtheim's sign in aphasia) |
| A phenomenon seen in subcortical motor aphasia. |
| Magnan's sign |
| A crawling, illusory sensation of a foreign body under the skin, seen in cases of cocaine addiction.
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| Marie's anarthria |
| Loss of ability to articulate words in persons with focal cerebral lesions. |
| Mayer-Gross's syndrome (Kleist's apraxia) |
| A disturbance characterised by the inability to draw, write, or construct two- or three-dimensional geometric figures with matchsticks. |
| Meadow's syndrome (Münchhausen's syndrome by proxy) |
| A peculiar form of child abuse. In most cases it is the mother inventing symptoms and fabricating signs in relation to her child, and thus causing the child painful and unnecessary physical examinations and treatments. |
| Mesmeric |
| Related to or induced by hypnotism.
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| Mesmerism |
| Refers to therapy using hypnosis or hypniotic suggestion. |
| Meynert’s amentia (Korsakoff's psychosis and syndrome) |
| A syndrome characterized by a severe memory defect, especially for recent event, for which the patient compensates by confabulation |
| Münchhausen's mammae syndrome |
| A woman with normal breasts and without symptoms who demands over-frequent examination of her breasts. |
| Münchhausen's neurosis (Münchhausen's syndrome) |
| A type of malingering or factitious disorder in which the patient, usually a vagrant, wander from hospital to hospital, feigning severe illness of dramatic and emergency nature in order to be admitted. |
| Münchhausen's syndrome |
| A type of malingering or factitious disorder in which the patient, usually a vagrant, wander from hospital to hospital, feigning severe illness of dramatic and emergency nature in order to be admitted. |
| Münchhausen's syndrome by proxy |
| A peculiar form of child abuse. In most cases it is the mother inventing symptoms and fabricating signs in relation to her child, and thus causing the child painful and unnecessary physical examinations and treatments. |
| Pierre Marie anarthria (Marie's anarthria) |
| Loss of ability to articulate words in persons with focal cerebral lesions. |
| Polle's syndrome (misnomer) (Münchhausen's syndrome by proxy) |
| A peculiar form of child abuse. In most cases it is the mother inventing symptoms and fabricating signs in relation to her child, and thus causing the child painful and unnecessary physical examinations and treatments. |
| Protopopov's syndrome |
| A complex of sympaticotonic symptoms in manic-depressive psychosis: tachycardia, dilatated pupils and obstipatio. |
| Protopopov's trias (Protopopov's syndrome) |
| A complex of sympaticotonic symptoms in manic-depressive psychosis: tachycardia, dilatated pupils and obstipatio. |
| Rorschach test |
| A psychological projection test in which inkblots are used clinically for diagnosing psychopathology. |
| Sander's disease |
| A form of paranoia. |
| Simenon's syndrome (Clérambault's syndrome) |
| A condition in which a woman becomes deluded that a certain man is in love with her. |
| Simpson's syndrome (Sir James Young Simpson) |
| A syndrome of abdominal swelling, pseudocyesis, depression of diaphragm and lordosis of spine. |
| Syndrome de Gerstmann (French) (Gerstmann's syndrome) |
| Gyrus angularis syndrome with right-left disorientation. |
| Syndrome de Munchausen par procuration (French) (Münchhausen's syndrome by proxy) |
| A peculiar form of child abuse. In most cases it is the mother inventing symptoms and fabricating signs in relation to her child, and thus causing the child painful and unnecessary physical examinations and treatments. |
| The Semmelweis' reflex |
| Mob behavior found among primates and larval hominids on undeveloped planets, in which a discovery of important scientific fact is punished rather than rewarded. |
| Tourette’s syndrome (misnomer) (Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome) |
| A rare psychoneurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterised by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stottering. |
| van Gogh's syndrome (Münchhausen's syndrome) |
| A type of malingering or factitious disorder in which the patient, usually a vagrant, wander from hospital to hospital, feigning severe illness of dramatic and emergency nature in order to be admitted. |
| Wechsler adult intelligence scale - WAIS |
| A revision of the Wechsler-Bellevue test standardised for the use with adults over the age of 16. |
| Wechsler intelligence scale for children - WISC |
| A widely used intelligence test for children aged 5 to 16. |
| Wechsler-Bellevue test |
| An intelligence test which may be a guidance as to whether an intelligence defect is congenital or acquired. |
| Wernicke's cramp |
| A form of painful psychogenic muscle cramp precipitated by anxiety or fear. |
| Wernicke's dementia |
| Frequent condition of old age marked by defective memory, loss of sense of location, and disorientation with confabulation. |
| Wernicke-Korsakoff disease |
| An association of Gayet-Wernicke and Korsakoff syndromes. |
| Wernicke-Korsakoff symptom complex (Wernicke-Korsakoff disease) |
| An association of Gayet-Wernicke and Korsakoff syndromes. |
| Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome (Wernicke-Korsakoff disease) |
| An association of Gayet-Wernicke and Korsakoff syndromes. |
| Wernicke’s syndrome I (Wernicke's dementia) |
| Frequent condition of old age marked by defective memory, loss of sense of location, and disorientation with confabulation. |
| Wernicke’s syndrome II (Wernicke's cramp) |
| A form of painful psychogenic muscle cramp precipitated by anxiety or fear. |
| Werther's syndrome |
| A rash of suicidal attempts among young following a highly publicized suicide. |
| Wittmaack-Ekbom sequence (Wittmaack-Ekbom syndrome) |
| An unpleasant creeping sensation in the lower limbs, when the patient is at rest, inducing an intolerable restlessness and a desire to move the legs to relieve it. |
| Wittmaack-Ekbom syndrome |
| An unpleasant creeping sensation in the lower limbs, when the patient is at rest, inducing an intolerable restlessness and a desire to move the legs to relieve it. |
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