Disorders of diminished motivation (DDM) are a group of disorders involving diminished motivation and associated emotions. Many different terms have been used to refer to diminished motivation. Often however, a spectrum is defined encompassing...
Motivational deficiency disorder is the name of a fake disease introduced on April Fool's Day 2006 as part of a health campaign to raise awareness of disease mongering.
Disease mongering is a pejorative term for the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses and aggressively promoting their public awareness in order to expand the markets for treatment. Among the entities benefiting from selling and...
Malnutrition occurs when an organism gets too few or too many nutrients, resulting in health problems. Specifically, it is a deficiency, excess, or imbalance of energy, protein and other nutrients which adversely affects the body's tissues and...
Motivation is an internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal-directed behavior. It is often understood as a force that explains why people or other animals initiate, continue, or terminate a certain behavior at a particular time. It is...
Androgen deficiency is a medical condition characterized by insufficient androgenic activity in the body. Androgen deficiency most commonly affects women, in whose case the condition is called female androgen insufficiency syndrome (FAIS), although...
Vitamin B12 deficiency, also known as cobalamin deficiency, is the medical condition in which the blood and tissues have a lower than normal level of vitamin B12. Mild deficiencies may have few or absent symptoms. In moderate deficiencies, feeling...
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a counseling approach developed in part by clinical psychologists William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick. It is a directive, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to...
Elizabeth Anne Velásquez (; born March 13, 1989) is an American motivational speaker, activist, writer, and YouTuber. She was born with an extremely rare congenital disease, Marfanoid–progeroid–lipodystrophy syndrome, which, among other symptoms,...
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a conceptualization of the needs (or goals) that motivate human behaviour, which was proposed in 1943 by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow. According to Maslow's original formulation, there are five sets of...
