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  Radiography

  Radiography is the creation of images by exposing a photographic film or other image receptor to X-rays. Since X-rays penetrate solid objects, but are weakened by them depending on the object's ... > more
• Mumps, Measles, Rubella
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  Mumps

  Mumps or epidemic parotitis is a viral disease of humans. Prior to the development of vaccination and the introduction of MMR vaccine, it was a common childhood disease worldwide, and is still a ... > more
• Sleep Disorder Research
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  Attention Deficit Disorder
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  Lung Disease
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  Apnea

  Apnea, apnoea, or apnœa is a technical term for suspension of external breathing. During apnea there is no movement of the muscles of respiration and the volume of the lungs initially remains ... > more
• Malaria
  Pests and Parasites
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  Malaria

  Malaria is an infectious disease that is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions. It infects between 300 and 500 million people every year and causes between one and three million deaths ... > more
• Autism
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Child Development
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  Autistic spectrum

  The autistic spectrum (sometimes referred to as the autism spectrum) is a developmental and behavioral syndrome that results from certain combinations of characteristically autistic traits. Although ... > more
• Attention Deficit Disorder
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  Placebo effect

  The placebo effect, also known as non-specific effects and the subject-expectancy effect, is the phenomenon that a patient's symptoms can be alleviated by an otherwise ineffective treatment, since ... > more
• Thyroid Disease
  Hormone Disorders
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  Hyperthyroidism

  Hyperthyroidism (or "overactive thyroid gland") is the clinical syndrome caused by an excess of circulating free thyroxine (T4) or free triiodothyronine (T3), or both. Major clinical features in ... > more
• Mental Health Research
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  Pharmacology
  Fibromyalgia
   

  Antidepressant

  An antidepressant is a medication designed to treat or alleviate the symptoms of clinical depression. Some antidepressants, notably the tricyclics, are commonly used off-label in the treatment of ... > more
• Attention Deficit Disorder
  ADD and ADHD
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  Pharmacology
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  Addiction
   
  

  Methylphenidate

  Methylphenidate (MPH) is an amphetamine-like prescription stimulant commonly used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children and ... > more
• Attention Deficit Disorder
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  Vitamin B
  Sports Medicine
  Diabetes
  Nutrition
   
  

  Inositol

  Inositol, (of which the most prominent naturally occurring form is myo-inositol, cis-1,2,3,5-trans-4,6-cyclohexanehexol), is a carbocyclic polyol that plays an important role as the structural basis ... > more

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