diagnostic overshadowing

the failure, when assessing an individual with multiple disabilities, to discern the presence of one disability because its features are attributed to another, primary disability. In particular, the term refers to the failure to recognize a mental disorder in a person with intellectual disability because characteristics of that mental disorder are erroneously attributed to the intellectual disability. See also dual diagnosis.

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Psychology term of the day

January 28th 2025

antipyretic

n. a drug that helps control fever or other forms of hyperthermia (raised body temperature) by acting on the thermoregulatory center in the hypothalamus. Antipyretics may also help the body to dissipate heat faster by dilating peripheral arteries. Aspirin and other nonopioid analgesics function as antipyretics.