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Mental Block is a Canadian comedy TV series, which premiered September 1, 2003 on YTV and TQS. It is created and written by Leila Basen and David Preston and directed by Sean Dwyer and Michael Kennedy. The show revolves around 13-year-old Donovan Mackay. His mom and dad seem to be going through a second adolescence, while he's going through his ...
Thought blocking is a neuropsychological symptom expressing a sudden and involuntary silence within a speech, and eventually an abrupt switch to another topic. [1] Persons undergoing thought blocking may utter incomprehensible speech; they may also repeat words involuntarily or make up new words.
Karl Duncker defined functional fixedness as being a mental block against using an object in a new way that is required to solve a problem. [1] This "block" limits the ability of an individual to use components given to them to complete a task, as they cannot move past the original purpose of those components.
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Thought insertion is a common symptom of psychosis and occurs in many mental disorders and other medical conditions. [1] However, thought insertion is most commonly associated with schizophrenia . Thought insertion, along with thought broadcasting , thought withdrawal , thought blocking and other first rank symptoms , is a primary symptom and ...
The term yips is said to have been popularized by Tommy Armour—a golf champion and later golf teacher—to explain the difficulties that led him to abandon tournament play. [4] In describing the yips, golfers have used terms such as twitches, staggers, jitters and jerks. The yips affects between a quarter and a half of all mature golfers. [5]
A thought disorder (TD) is a disturbance in cognition which affects language, thought and communication. [1] [2] Psychiatric and psychological glossaries in 2015 and 2017 identified thought disorders as encompassing poverty of ideas, paralogia (a reasoning disorder characterized by expression of illogical or delusional thoughts), word salad, and delusions—all disturbances of thought content ...
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