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neurotic anxiety

in psychoanalytic theory, anxiety that originates in unconscious conflict and is maladaptive in nature: It has a disturbing effect on emotion and behavior and also intensifies resistance to treatment. Neurotic anxiety contrasts with realistic anxiety about an external danger or threat and with moral anxiety, which is guilt posited to originate in the superego.

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corticostriatonigral degeneration

corticostriatonigral degeneration

see corticobasal ganglionic degeneration.