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Flashback
Flashback A recurrence of a memory, feeling, or perceptual experience from the past.
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Recurrence
The return of symptoms or the tumor itself, as opposed to a remission.
Memory
In the immune system, memory denotes an active state of immunity to a specific antigen, such that a second encounter with that antigen leads to a larger and more rapid response.
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Flocculent
Having downy or flaky shreds.
Friable
Breaks apart or crumbles easily.
Flashback
Flat affect
An affect type that indicates the absence of signs of affective expression.
Flight of ideas
A nearly continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic that are usually based on understandable associations, distracting stimuli, or plays on words. When severe, speech may be disorganized and incoherent.
Flooding
Implosion. A behavior therapy procedure for phobias and other problems involving maladaptive anxiety, in which anxiety producers are presented in intense forms, either in imagination or in real life. The presentations, which act as desensitizers, are continued until the stimuli no longer produce disabling anxiety.
Folie à deux
A shared psychotic disorder between 2 people, usually people who are mutually dependent upon each other.
Formal thought disorder
An inexact term referring to a disturbance in the form of thinking rather than to abnormality of content. See blocking; loosening of associations; poverty of speech.
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