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Idiot savant
Idiot savant A person with gross mental retardation who nonetheless is capable of performing certain remarkable feats in sharply circumscribed intellectual areas, such as calendar calculation or puzzle solving.
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Retardation
Delay or halt of any process such as mental or physical development.
Circumscribed
Having a border, localized. Often associated with a capsule and benign tumors of the brain, for example, meningiomas, pituitary adenomas and acoustic neuromas. See diffuse.
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Idiographic
Specific to the self and unique to one's own biography.
Idiopathic
Of unexplained origin, as in the development of a symptom or syndrome that is apparently spontaneously generated.
Idiosyncratic
Pertaining to one's individual and sujectively personal ideation, cognitions, affect, tastes, attitudes, habits and behaviors. As in fingerprints, irises, and DNA coding (except in identical twins) the term pertains to one's individuality in any specific measurable factor. Compare to phyletic.
Idiotype
The combined antigenic determinants (idiotopes) found on antibodies of an individual that are directed at a particular antigen; such antigenic determinants are found only in the variable region.
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Intracellular
Within cells.
Ipsilateral
Affecting or pertaining to the same side.
Id
In Freudian theory, the part of the personality that is the unconscious source of unstructured desires and drives. See also ego; superego.
Idealization
A mental mechanism in which the person attributes exaggeratedly positive qualities to the self or others.
Ideas of reference
Incorrect interpretations of casual incidents and external events as having direct reference to oneself. May reach sufficient intensity to constitute delusions.
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Illusion
A misperception or misinterpretation of a real external stimulus, such as hearing the rustling of leaves as the sound of voices. See also hallucination.
Inappropriate affect
An affect type that represents an unusual affective expression that does not match with the content of what is being said or thought.
Incoherence
Speech or thinking that is essentially incomprehensible to others because words or phrases are joined together without a logical or meaningful connection. This disturbance occurs within clauses, in contrast to derailment, in which the disturbance is between clauses. This has sometimes been referred to as "word salad" to convey the degree of linguistic disorganization. Mildly ungrammatical constructions or idiomatic usages characteristic of particular regional or cultural backgrounds, lack of education, or low intelligence should not be considered incoherence. The term is generally not applied when there is evidence that the disturbance in speech is due to an aphasia.
Incorporation
A primitive defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, in which the psychic representation of a person, or parts of the person, is figuratively ingested.
Individuation
A process of differentiation, the end result of which is development of the individual personality that is separate and distinct from all others.
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