Apathy
Lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern about something.
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Schizophrenia
Mental disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis.
Other symptoms include social withdrawal, decreased emotional expression, and apathy.
Parkinson's disease
Long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system.
Cognitive and behavioral problems may also occur with depression, anxiety, and apathy occurring in many people with PD. Parkinson's disease dementia becomes common in the advanced stages of the disease.
Flow (psychology)
Mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.
Some of the challenges to staying in flow include states of apathy, boredom, and anxiety.
Alzheimer's disease
Neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens.
Apathy and depression can be seen at this stage, with apathy remaining as the most persistent symptom throughout the course of the disease.
Reduced affect display
Condition of reduced emotional reactivity in an individual.
Reduced affect should be distinguished from apathy and anhedonia, which explicitly refer to a lack of emotion, whereas reduced affect is a lack of emotional expression (affect display) regardless of whether emotion (underlying affect) is actually reduced or not.
Lethargy
State of tiredness, sleepiness, weariness, fatigue, sluggishness or lack of energy.
It can be accompanied by depression, decreased motivation, or apathy.
Apatheia
Not disturbed by the passions.
The meaning of the word apatheia is quite different from that of the modern English apathy, which has a distinctly negative connotation.
Schizoid personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder (, often abbreviated as SPD or SzPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency toward a solitary or sheltered lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, detachment and apathy.
Dementia
Damaged by injury or disease.
Behavioral changes may include apathy, lethargy and diminished emotional responses and spontaneity.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Mental and behavioral disorder that can develop because of exposure to a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life.
Dopamine levels in a person with PTSD can contribute to symptoms: low levels can contribute to anhedonia, apathy, impaired attention, and motor deficits; high levels can contribute to psychosis, agitation, and restlessness.