Clinical

Major depressive disorder is among the most common mental health conditions worldwide, and the World Health Organization ranks dep...

Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by excessive, hard to control worry about a range of everyday matters, such as work,...

Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder characterized by episodes of mania or hypomania and, in most cases, episodes of depression. It...

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder affecting somewhat less than one percent of people over their lifetime, typically emerg...

Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder in which a person experiences recurrent, unexpected panic attacks, followed by persistent wo...

Post traumatic stress disorder can develop after exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violence. Most p...

Obsessive compulsive disorder is characterized by obsessions, which are intrusive, unwanted thoughts, images or urges that cause m...

Social anxiety disorder, formerly called social phobia, involves intense fear or anxiety about social or performance situations in...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a neurodevelopmental condition and one of the most common diagnoses in childhood, with...

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by restriction of energy intake leading to significantly low body weight, an ...

Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating, meaning eating an unusually large amoun...

Binge eating disorder is the most common eating disorder in the United States and was formally recognized as a separate diagnosis ...

Borderline personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability in relationships, self image and emotions, ...

Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by persistent differences in social communication and int...

Seasonal affective disorder is a pattern of major depression, recorded in DSM-5 with the specifier with seasonal pattern, in which...

Psychosis is a symptom, not a diagnosis, describing a loss of contact with reality. It can occur in schizophrenia and related diso...

Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder involving marked fear or anxiety about situations where escape might be difficult or help might...

Specific phobia involves marked fear or anxiety about a particular object or situation that poses little actual danger, leading to...

Separation anxiety disorder involves fear or anxiety about separation from home or attachment figures that is excessive for the de...

Illness anxiety disorder, which together with somatic symptom disorder replaced the older diagnosis of hypochondriasis in DSM-5, i...

Body dysmorphic disorder is characterized by preoccupation with one or more perceived defects or flaws in physical appearance that...

Hoarding disorder involves persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions regardless of their actual value, because ...

Trichotillomania, also called hair pulling disorder, involves recurrent pulling out of hair from the scalp or body, resulting in h...

Excoriation disorder, also called skin picking disorder or dermatillomania, involves recurrent picking of the skin that results in...

Acute stress disorder is a trauma and stressor related condition that develops after exposure to actual or threatened death, serio...

Adjustment disorder describes emotional or behavioral symptoms that develop in response to an identifiable stressor, beginning wit...

Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by a disruption of identity involving two or more distinct personality states, acc...

Depersonalization derealization disorder involves persistent or recurrent experiences of depersonalization, derealization or both....

Somatic symptom disorder is characterized by one or more physical symptoms that are distressing or disrupt daily life, together wi...

Conversion disorder, also called functional neurological symptom disorder in DSM-5, involves one or more symptoms of altered volun...

Factitious disorder involves falsifying physical or psychological signs or symptoms, or inducing injury or disease, in association...

Narcissistic personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity in fantasy or behavior, need for admiration and lack of em...

Antisocial personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age...

Avoidant personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy and hypersensitivity to negative...

Dependent personality disorder is a pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of, leading to submissive and clinging behavior ...

Histrionic personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by early adultho...

Schizoid personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of emotional e...

Schizotypal personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with and r...

Paranoid personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpre...

Prolonged grief disorder, also known as complicated grief, is a condition in which grief after the death of someone close remains ...

Conduct disorder is a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in children and adolescents in which the basic rights of other...

Oppositional defiant disorder is a pattern of angry or irritable mood, argumentative or defiant behavior, or vindictiveness lastin...

Intermittent explosive disorder is characterized by recurrent behavioral outbursts representing a failure to control aggressive im...

Gambling disorder is a persistent and recurrent pattern of problematic gambling leading to significant impairment or distress. Fea...

Internet gaming disorder refers to persistent and recurrent use of video games, often online and with other players, leading to si...

Kleptomania is characterized by recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or for ...

Pyromania is characterized by deliberate and purposeful fire setting on more than one occasion, accompanied by tension or emotiona...

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a severe form of premenstrual mood disturbance that DSM-5 placed in the depressive disorders ch...

Rumination disorder is a feeding and eating disorder involving repeated regurgitation of food over a period of at least one month....

Pica is a feeding and eating disorder involving persistent eating of non nutritive, non food substances over a period of at least ...

Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, often abbreviated ARFID, is a feeding and eating disorder introduced in DSM-5 in 2013, ...

Unspecified mental disorder is a DSM-5 category used when symptoms characteristic of a mental disorder cause clinically significan...

Persistent depressive disorder is a long term form of depression in which a person experiences depressed mood on more days than no...

Cyclothymic disorder is a chronic mood condition in the bipolar and related disorders group. It involves numerous periods of hypom...

Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder is a childhood depressive disorder introduced in DSM-5 in 2013. It describes children who h...

Peripartum depression refers to a major depressive episode that begins during pregnancy or in the weeks after childbirth. In DSM-5...

Schizoaffective disorder is a condition in which a person has symptoms of schizophrenia, such as delusions or hallucinations, toge...

Delusional disorder is characterized by one or more delusions lasting at least a month in a person who does not otherwise meet cri...

Brief psychotic disorder involves the sudden onset of at least one psychotic symptom, such as delusions, hallucinations or disorga...

Schizophreniform disorder has the same characteristic symptoms as schizophrenia, including delusions, hallucinations, disorganized...

Catatonia is a syndrome of marked psychomotor disturbance first described in detail by the German psychiatrist Karl Kahlbaum in 18...

Selective mutism is an anxiety disorder in which a person, usually a child, consistently does not speak in certain social situatio...

Anxiety disorder due to another medical condition is diagnosed when prominent anxiety or panic attacks are judged to be the direct...

Reactive attachment disorder is a trauma and stressor related condition of early childhood. It describes a consistent pattern of i...

Disinhibited social engagement disorder is a condition in which a child who has experienced insufficient early care actively appro...

Complex post traumatic stress disorder is a diagnosis included in ICD-11, the World Health Organization classification. It typical...

Olfactory reference disorder is characterized by a persistent preoccupation with the belief that one emits a foul or offensive bod...

Obsessive compulsive personality disorder is a long standing pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism and mental a...

Tourette disorder, also called Tourette syndrome, is a neurodevelopmental condition involving multiple motor tics and at least one...

Persistent motor or vocal tic disorder, also called chronic tic disorder, is a tic disorder in which a person has either motor tic...

Specific learning disorder is a neurodevelopmental condition involving persistent difficulties learning and using core academic sk...

Intellectual developmental disorder, also called intellectual disability, is characterized by significant limitations in both inte...

Developmental coordination disorder is a neurodevelopmental condition in which the acquisition and execution of coordinated motor ...

Language disorder is a communication disorder in which a person has persistent difficulty acquiring and using language across spee...

Childhood onset fluency disorder, commonly called stuttering, is a communication disorder involving frequent disruptions in the no...

Speech sound disorder is a communication disorder in which a child has persistent difficulty producing speech sounds, which interf...

Social pragmatic communication disorder is a diagnosis introduced in DSM-5 in 2013. It describes persistent difficulties in the so...

Stereotypic movement disorder involves repetitive, seemingly driven and apparently purposeless motor behavior, such as hand shakin...

Insomnia disorder is defined by dissatisfaction with sleep quantity or quality, with difficulty initiating sleep, maintaining slee...

Hypersomnolence disorder is characterized by excessive sleepiness despite a main sleep period lasting at least seven hours. People...

Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological sleep disorder characterized by recurrent periods of an irrepressible need to sleep, lapsing ...

Nightmare disorder involves repeated occurrences of extended, extremely dysphoric and well remembered dreams that usually involve ...

Non rapid eye movement sleep arousal disorder covers sleepwalking and sleep terrors, which arise from incomplete awakening, usuall...

REM sleep behavior disorder is characterized by repeated episodes of arousal during sleep with vocalization and complex motor beha...

Restless legs syndrome, also known as Willis Ekbom disease, is a sensory and motor condition involving an urge to move the legs, u...

Obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea is a breathing related sleep disorder included in DSM-5 because of its close links with sleep, mo...

Circadian rhythm sleep wake disorders are a group of conditions caused by an alteration of the internal body clock, or a mismatch ...

Alcohol use disorder is a problematic pattern of alcohol use leading to significant impairment or distress. Features include drink...

Opioid use disorder is a problematic pattern of use of opioids, which include heroin, illicitly manufactured fentanyl and prescrip...

Cannabis use disorder is a problematic pattern of cannabis use leading to significant impairment or distress. Features include usi...

Stimulant use disorder is a problematic pattern of use of stimulants, including cocaine, methamphetamine, amphetamines and other s...

Tobacco use disorder is a problematic pattern of tobacco use, usually involving dependence on nicotine, leading to significant imp...

Sedative, hypnotic or anxiolytic use disorder is a problematic pattern of use of sedating substances such as benzodiazepines, rela...

Delirium is an acute disturbance in attention and awareness, together with changes in cognition such as memory problems, disorient...

Major neurocognitive disorder is the DSM-5 term for the condition widely known as dementia. It involves a significant decline from...

Mild neurocognitive disorder is a DSM-5 diagnosis describing a modest decline in one or more cognitive areas, such as memory, atte...

Dissociative amnesia is characterized by an inability to recall important autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or ...

Psychological factors affecting other medical conditions is a DSM-5 diagnosis in the somatic symptom and related disorders chapter...

Other specified feeding or eating disorder, often abbreviated OSFED, is a DSM-5 category for eating disorders that cause significa...

Enuresis is an elimination disorder involving repeated voiding of urine into bed or clothes, whether involuntary or intentional, i...

Encopresis is an elimination disorder involving the repeated passage of feces into inappropriate places, such as clothing or the f...

Erectile disorder is a sexual dysfunction involving marked difficulty obtaining or maintaining an erection during sexual activity,...

Female sexual interest arousal disorder is a DSM-5 diagnosis that combined the earlier separate categories of hypoactive sexual de...

Genito pelvic pain penetration disorder is a DSM-5 diagnosis that combined the earlier categories of vaginismus and dyspareunia. I...

Gender dysphoria is the DSM-5-TR term for clinically significant distress or impairment associated with a marked incongruence betw...