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Disorders - F
Factitious disorder imposed on another
Factitious transtorno imposed on another is characterised by feigning, falsifying, or inducing medical, psychological, or behavioural signs and symptoms or injury in another person, most commonly a child dependent, associated com identified deception. If a pre-existing transtorno or disease is present in the other person, the individual intentionally aggravates existing symptoms or falsifies or induces additional symptoms. The individual seeks treatment for the other person or otherwise presents him or her as ill, injured, or impaired based on the feigned, falsified, or induced signs, symptoms, or injuries. The deceptive behaviour is not solely motivated by obvious external rewards or incentives (e.g., obtaining disability payments or avoiding criminal prosecution for child or elder abuse).
Factitious disorder imposed on self
Factitious transtorno imposed on self is characterised by feigning, falsifying, or inducing medical, psychological, or behavioural signs and symptoms or injury associated com identified deception. If a pre-existing transtorno or disease is present, the individual intentionally aggravates existing symptoms or falsifies or induces additional symptoms. The individual seeks treatment or otherwise presents himself or herself as ill, injured, or impaired based on the feigned, falsified, or self-induced signs, symptoms, or injuries. The deceptive behaviour is not solely motivated by obvious external rewards or incentives (e.g., obtaining disability payments or evading criminal prosecution). This is in contrast to Malingering, in which obvious external rewards or incentives motivate the behaviour
Specific phobia
Fobia específica is characterised by a marked and excessive fear or anxiety that consistently occurs upon exposure or anticipation of exposure to one or more specific objects or situations (e.g., proximity to certain animals, flying, heights, closed spaces, sight of blood or injury) that is out of proportion to actual danger. The phobic objects or situations are avoided or else endured com intense fear or anxiety. Symptoms persist for at least several months and are sufficiently grave to result in significant distress or significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
Frontotemporal dementia
Frontotemporal Demência (FTD) is a group of primary neurodegenerative transtornos primarily affecting the frontal and temporal lobes. Onset is typically insidious com a gradual and worsening course. Several syndromic variants (some com an identified genetic basis or familiality) are described that include presentations com predominantly marked personality and behavioral changes (such as executive dysfunction, apathy, deterioration of social cognition, repetitive behaviours, and dietary changes), predominantly language deficits (that include semantic, agrammatic/nonfluent, and logopenic forms), predominantly movement-related deficits (progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, multiple systems atrophy, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), or a combination of these deficits. Memory function often remains relatively intact, particularly during the early stages of the transtorno.
Frotteuristic disorder
Frotteuristic transtorno is characterised by a sustained, focused and intense padrão of sexual arousal—as manifested by persistent sexual thoughts, fantasies, urges, or behaviours—that involves touching or rubbing against a non-consenting person in crowded public places. In addition, in order for Frotteuristic transtorno to be diagnosed, the individual must have acted on these thoughts, fantasies or urges or be markedly distressed by them. Frotteuristic transtorno specifically excludes consensual touching or rubbing that occurs com the consent of the person or persons involved.