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Descriptor English: Mental Disorders
Descriptor Spanish: Trastornos Mentales
Descriptor trastornos mentales
Entry term(s) diagnóstico psiquiátrico
enfermedad mental
enfermedad psiquiátrica
enfermedades psiquiátricas
trastorno del comportamiento
trastorno mental
trastornos del comportamiento
trastornos mentales graves
trastornos mentales severos
trastornos psiquiátricos
Scope note: Enfermedades o dolencias psiquiátricas que se manifiestan como fracaso del proceso de adaptación y se expresan principalmente como anomalías del pensamiento, sentimiento y comportamiento y producen sufrimiento o deficiencia funcional.
Descriptor Portuguese: Transtornos Mentais
Descriptor French: Troubles mentaux
Entry term(s): Behavior Disorders
Diagnosis, Psychiatric
Illness, Mental
Mental Disorder
Mental Disorder, Severe
Mental Disorders, Severe
Mental Illness
Mental Illnesses
Psychiatric Diagnosis
Psychiatric Disease
Psychiatric Diseases
Psychiatric Disorder
Psychiatric Disorders
Psychiatric Illness
Psychiatric Illnesses
Severe Mental Disorder
Severe Mental Disorders
Tree number(s): F03
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001523
Scope note: Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Entry Version: MENTAL DIS
Related: Mentally Ill Persons MeSH
DeCS ID: 8771
Unique ID: D001523
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1998/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2020/02/21
Mental Disorders - Preferred
Concept UI M0002289
Scope note Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.
Preferred term Mental Disorders
Entry term(s) Illness, Mental
Mental Disorder
Mental Illness
Mental Illnesses
Psychiatric Disease
Psychiatric Diseases
Psychiatric Disorder
Psychiatric Disorders
Psychiatric Illness
Psychiatric Illnesses
Diagnosis, Psychiatric - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0002290
Preferred term Diagnosis, Psychiatric
Entry term(s) Psychiatric Diagnosis
Behavior Disorders - Narrower
Concept UI M0002288
Preferred term Behavior Disorders
Mental Disorders, Severe - Broader
Concept UI M000606130
Preferred term Mental Disorders, Severe
Entry term(s) Mental Disorder, Severe
Severe Mental Disorder
Severe Mental Disorders



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