Glossary
Here is a glossary of key terms and phrases which are included throughout articles on the site. They are sorted alphabetically and include terms to help with the understanding of mood disorders, their treatment and the underlying neuroscience. If their is a particular key term which you are looking for you can use Ctrl+F to search for a word on a computer, alternatively navigate the list in alphabetical order.
A-D
- Acute treatment
- Adenosine
- Adrenaline
- Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
- Adrenoreceptors
- Adversities
- Agonist
- Amelioration
- Amino acid
- Amnesia
- Analgesia
- Antagonist
- Anterior cingulotomy
- Antibodies
- Antipsychotic
- Attenuation
- Atypical hallucinogen
- Biomarkers
- Bipolar type 1
- Bipolar type 2
- Catalyst
- Cerebral aneurysms
- Cerebral cortex
- Circadian Rhythm
- Cognitive Analytical Therapy (CAT)
- Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT)
- Comorbid
- Compulsion
- Controlled drug
- Cortisol
- Cytokines
- Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
- Defibrillation
- Delirium
- Delusions
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Diathermy
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
- Dichotomised
- Difficult to Treat Depression (DTD)
- Disorientation
- Dissociative anaesthetic agent
- Dopamine
- Dopamine receptors
E-H
- Efficacy
- Ego
- Ego loss
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- Empathic
- Entactogens
- Enzyme
- Euphoria
- Exogenous
- Extroversion
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Frontal lobotomy
- GABA
- Glial-cells
- Glutamate
- Glutamate antagonist
- Glutamatergic NDMA receptor antagonist
- Hallucinations
- Heart arrhythmias
- Heterogeneous
- Histamine
- Homeostasis
- Hormone
- HPA axis
- Hypercortisolaemia
- Hypothalamus
I-L
- International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
- Insomnia
- Illusion
- Immunosuppressive
- Impulse
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy
- Intravenous (IV) infusion
- Leukocytes
- Limbic leucotomy
- Limbic system
M-P
- Macrophages
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan
- Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
- Mammogram
- Magnetic Seizure Therapy (MST)
- Melatonin
- Misuse of drugs act
- Modulator
- Mood Disorders
- NDMA receptor antagonist
- Neural circuit
- Neurogenesis
- Neuroimaging
- Neuroplasticity
- Neurone
- Neurostimulators and neuromodulators
- Neurotransmitter
- Neurotrophic
- NICE
- Non-REM sleep
- Noradrenaline
- Obsession
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Opioid system
- Orexin
- Oxidative stress
- Paranoia
- Pathogens
- Perceptual distortions
- Personality disorder
- Phagocyte
- Pineal Gland
- Plasma (blood plasma)
- Placebo
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Prefrontal cortex
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan
- Psychedelic
- Psychodynamic approach
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy
- Psychological dependence
- Psychosis
- Psychosocial functioning
- Psychosurgery for mental disorders
- Psychotherapy
- Psychopharmacological
Q-T
- Receptor
- Refractory
- Relapse
- Remission
- Repetitive Transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
- Residual symptoms
- Response
- Scheduled drugs
- Schizophrenia
- Sensitises
- Sensory perception
- Serotonin
- Serotonin receptors
- Serum (blood serum)
- Sleep Apnoea
- SSRI
- Subcaudate tractotomy
- Subgenual Cingulate cortex
- Sublingual
- Synaesthesia
- Synapse
- Systemic disease
- Tolerability
- Tolerance
- Treatment augmentation
- Treatment combination
- Treatment intolerance
- Tryptophan