Science and Health

TDAH is the Spanish translation for ADHD. ADHD stands for “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,” a syndrome characterized by three main symptoms: inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, although these symptoms are not always present together.

Abulia is a term used to describe a state of lack of motivation and apathy towards decision-making and task performance.

The term aphasia (afasia in Spanish) refers to a disorder that affects the way a person communicates. It can affect speech, but it can also affect the way a person writes.

The Mandela Effect, Efecto Mandela in Spanish, refers to those false memories that a group of society shares. For some reason the brain plays a trick on us and we remember something that never happened. In other words, we collectively make things up even though they never happened.

Fiebre means fever in English. In colloquial usage it refers to a state of pathological obsession with a particular situation or object. A person who wants to do something or cannot stop doing it.

Xoconostle is a prickly pear-like fruit of a variety of cactus, it has a sour taste and is used in the preparation of different dishes. This fruit from cactus plants is consumed especially in Mexico, they are cultivated in this country for that purpose.

It is a term based on an analogy that is used to describe that a small and imperceptible alteration can trigger enormous consequences in a complete system making it different from an identical one but without such minimal alteration.

Biodescodification (Emocional de Enfermedades) is an alternative medicine denomination that tries to find the emotional meaning of illnesses, in order to find the way to heal from there.

Hydropic disease, suffering from dropsy, i.e. abnormal retention of fluid in the body, especially in the belly area.

Perco is short for “percocet”, an opioid called oxycodone and which is potentiated by acetaminophen.

MDMA is also known as Molly. It is the popular way of referring to MDMA-type drugs (abbreviated version of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), produced in laboratories, such as ecstasy.

The word ombrophobia is formed by Greek roots, meaning fear of rain. It contains the lexical components “ombros” meaning storm rain and “phobos”: fear, adding the suffix -ia meaning quality.