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| 11510081004 | Substance Use Disorder | continued substance craving and use despite significant life disruption and/or physical risk | 0 | |
| 11510081005 | Psychoactive Drug | a chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods | 1 | |
| 11510081006 | Tolerance | the diminishing effect with regular use of the same dose of drug, requiring the user to take larger and larger doses before experiencing the drug's effects | 2 | |
| 11510081007 | Addiction | compulsive craving of drugs or certain behavior despite known adverse consequences | 3 | |
| 11510081008 | Withdrawal | the discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing an addictive drug or behavior | 4 | |
| 11510081009 | Depressants | drugs that reduce neural activity and slow body functions | 5 | |
| 11510081010 | Alcohol Use Disorder | alcohol use marked by tolerance, withdrawal, and a drive to continue problematic use | 6 | |
| 11510081011 | Barbiturates | drug that depresses central nervous system activity, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgment | 7 | |
| 11510081012 | Opiates | opium and its derivatives, such as morphine and heroin; they depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety | 8 | |
| 11510081013 | Stimulants | drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamines, cocaine, Ecstasy, and methamphetamine) that excite neural activity and speed up body functions | 9 | |
| 11510081014 | Amphetamines | drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes | 10 | |
| 11510081015 | Nicotine | a stimulating and highly addictive psychoactive drug in tobacco | 11 | |
| 11510081016 | Cocaine | a powerful and addictive stimulant, derived from the coca plant, producing temporarily increased alertness and euphoria | 12 | |
| 11510081017 | Methamphetamine | a powerfully addictive drug that stimulates the central nervous system, with speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes; over time, appears to reduce baseline dopamine levels | 13 | |
| 11510081018 | Ecstasy (MDMA) | a synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen -produces euphoria and social intimacy, but with short-term health risks and long-term harm to serotonin-producing neurons and to mood and cognition | 14 | |
| 11510081019 | Hallucinogens | psychedelic ("mind-manifesting") drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input | 15 | |
| 11510081020 | LSD | a powerful hallucinogenic drug; also known as acid | 16 | |
| 11510081021 | Near-Death Experience | an altered state of consciousness reported after a close brush with death (such as cardiac arrest); often similar to drug-induced hallucinations | 17 | |
| 11510081022 | THC | the major active ingredient in marijuana; triggers a variety of effects, including mild hallucinations | 18 | |
| 11510081023 | Insomnia | recurring problems in falling or staying asleep | 19 | |
| 11510081024 | Narcolepsy | a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks | 20 | |
| 11510081025 | Sleep Apnea | a sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings | 21 | |
| 11510081026 | Night Terrors | a sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified; unlike nightmares, night terrors occur during NREM-3 sleep, within 2 or 3 hours of falling asleep, and are seldom remembered | 22 | |
| 11510081027 | Dream | a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind | 23 | |
| 11510081028 | Manifest Content | according to Freud, the story line of a dream | 24 | |
| 11510081029 | Latent Content | according to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream | 25 | |
| 11510081030 | REM Rebound | the tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakenings during REM sleep) | 26 | |
| 11510081031 | Circadian Rhythm | the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms (for example, of temperature and wakefulness) that occur on a 24-hour cycle | 27 | |
| 11510081032 | REM Sleep | Rapid Eye Movement Sleep; a reoccurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur -also known as Paradoxical Sleep, because the muscles are relaxed (except for minor twitches) but other body systems are active | 28 | |
| 11510081033 | Alpha Waves | the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state | 29 | |
| 11510081034 | Sleep | periodic, natural loss of consciousness- as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation | 30 | |
| 11510081035 | Hallucinations | false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus | 31 | |
| 11510081036 | Delta Waves | the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep | 32 | |
| 11510081037 | NREM Sleep | Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep; encompasses all sleep stages except for REM sleep | 33 | |
| 11510081038 | Sleep Spindles | bursts of rapid, rhythmic brain-wave activity | 34 | |
| 11510081039 | Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) | a pair of cell clusters in the hypothalamus that controls circadian rhythm -in response to light, this causes the pineal gland to adjust melatonin production, thus modifying our feelings of sleepiness | 35 | |
| 11510081040 | Consciousness | Our awareness of ourselves and our environment | 36 | |
| 11510081041 | States of Consciousness | Sleeping, walking, and various altered states | 37 | |
| 11510081042 | Hypnosis | A social interaction in which one person (the subject) responds to another person's (the hypnotist's) suggestions that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur | 38 | |
| 11510081043 | Hypnotherapists | try to help people harness their own healing powers | 39 | |
| 11510081044 | Posthypnotic Suggestions | a suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized -used by some clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behaviors | 40 | |
| 11510081045 | Stroop Effect | Explains the decreased speed of naming the color of ink used to print words when the color of ink and the word itself are of different colors. |  | 41 |
| 11510081046 | Dissociation | a split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others | 42 |
