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  • 61Anxiety —    Anxiety and phobic thinking may be normal emotions, distinct clusters of symptoms ( syndromes *), or diseases in the sense of distinct illness entities.    In psychoanalysis, anxiety is used as a theoretical term, the presumed unconscious… …

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  • 62Anxiety and Phobias —    Anxiety and phobic thinking may be normal emotions, distinct clusters of symptoms ( syndromes *), or diseases in the sense of distinct illness entities.    In psychoanalysis, anxiety is used as a theoretical term, the presumed unconscious… …

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  • 63Anxiety — For other uses, see Anxiety (disambiguation). Anxiety A marble bust of the Roman Emperor Decius from the Capitoline Museum. This portrait conveys an impression of anxiety and weariness, as of a man shouldering heavy [state] responsibilities …

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  • 64Modafinil — Systematic (IUPAC) name (±) 2 (benzhydrylsulfinyl)acetamide …

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  • 65Mood (psychology) — A mood is a relatively long lasting emotional state. Moods differ from emotions in that they are less specific, less intense, and less likely to be triggered by a particular stimulus or event.[1] Moods generally have either a positive or negative …

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  • 66Sexual stimulation — is any stimulus that leads to sexual arousal or orgasm. The term often implies stimulation of the genitals but may also include stimulation of other areas of the body, stimulation of the senses (such as sight or hearing), and mental stimulation… …

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  • 67Penile plethysmograph — The penile plethysmograph (PPG) is a controversial type of plethysmograph that measures changes in blood flow in the penis. Cavernous nerve penile plethysmograph measures changes in response to inter operative electric stimulation during… …

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  • 68Fight-or-flight response — Refimprove|date=February 2007The fight or flight response, also called the fright , fight or flight response, hyperarousal or the acute stress response, was first described by Walter Cannon in 1915. [… …

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  • 69Drive theory (social psychology) — Drive Theory was first suggested by Robert Zajonc in 1965 as an explanation of the audience effect. The audience effect notes that in some cases the presence of a passive audience will facilitate the better performance of a task; while in other… …

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  • 70Attraction to disability — is a sexualised interest of people in the appearance, sensation and experience of disability. It may extend from normal human sexuality into a type of sexual fetishism. Sexologically, the pathological end of the attraction tends to be seen[Need… …

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