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There are currently 8 names in this directory beginning with the letter O.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
A neurobehavioral disorder, also known as OCD, where a person is anxious and bothered by intrusive, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and or strong urges to perform opposite actions (compulsions).
Occupational therapist
A skilled professional who helps people return to ordinary tasks around the home and at work by way of lifestyle adaptations and or with the aid of assistive devices.
Operant Conditioning
A process of behavioral learning in which a voluntary action is reinforced through reward or diminished through punishment.
Opioid Agonist
Both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical drugs, also called narcotics that work by activating all opioid receptors in a person's nervous system. These drugs cause euphoria, pain relief, calmness, sleepiness and reduced appetite. Examples include morphine, oxycodone heroin and Percocet. They are prescribed to treat pain, but can often be abused or sold illegally. The unrestricted use of opioids had led to a health epidemic.
Optic Neuritis
An inflammatory demyelinating of the optic nerve, typically causing a person to loose vision in one eye over hours to days.
Orthostatic Hypotension
An autonomic nervous system disorder which is trigged by standing and relieved by laying down. Symptoms occur such as dizziness and fainting because the blood pressure drops abnormally when a person moves to sitting or standing upright.
Otoliths
Crystals of calcium carbonate located in a part of your ear called the otolithic membrane. They contribute to your balance by detecting gravity and they aid in the awareness of your head's spatial orientation.