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In medicine, the term syndrome is the association of several clinically recognizable features, signs, symptoms, phenomena or characteristics which often occur together, so that the presence of one feature alerts the physician to the presence of the others. In recent decades the term has been used outside of medicine to refer to a combination of phenomena seen in association.

The term syndrome derives from the Greek and means literally "run together," as the features do. The term syndrome is most often used when the reason that the features occur together (pathophysiology) has not yet been discovered. A familiar syndrome name often continues to be used even after an underlying cause has been found. Many syndromes are named after the physicians credited with first reporting the association; these are "eponymous" syndromes. Otherwise, disease features or presumed causes, as well as references to geography, history or poetry, can lend their names to syndromes

List of syndromesEdit

Psychologists have been involved in studying a wide variety of syndromes. These include:

• Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
• Addisons disease
• Aspergers syndrome
• Battered child syndrome
• Capgras syndrome
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Creutzfeldt Jakob syndrome
• Crying cat syndrome
• Cushings syndrome
• Delirium tremens
• Downs syndrome
• Fetal alcohol syndrome
• Fragile X syndrome
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Kliene Levin syndrome
• Klienfelters syndrome
• Menieres disease
• Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
• Prader Willi syndrome
• Rett syndrome
• Senile dementia
• Testicular feminization syndrome
• Turners syndrome
• [[Wernickes syndrome]

See alsoEdit

• Myofacial pain
• Organic brain syndromes
• Stockholm syndrome
• Sudden infant death

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