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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
• Alzheimer's
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  Amyloid

  Amyloid describes various types of protein aggregations that share specific traits when examined microscopically. For a period, the scientific community debated whether or not amyloid deposits were ... > more
• Anxiety
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  Culture of fear

  Culture of fear is a term that refers to a perceived prevalence of fear and anxiety in public discourse and relationships, and how this may affect the way people interact with one another as ... > more
• Alcoholism
  Addiction
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  Alcoholism

  Alcoholism is the consumption of or preoccupation with alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the alcoholic's normal personal, family, social, or work life. The chronic ... > more
• Perception
  Eye Care
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  Color blindness

  Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, in humans is the inability to perceive differences between some or all colors that other people can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but ... > more
• Social Psychology
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  Social movement

  Social movements are a type of group action. They are large informal groupings of individuals and/or organizations focused on specific political or social issues, in other words, on carrying out, ... > more
• Psychedelic Drugs
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  Psilocybin

  Psilocybin (also known as psilocybine), is a psychedelic alkaloid of the tryptamine family. It is present in many species of fungi, including those of the genus Psilocybe, such as Psilocybe cubensis ... > more
• Psychology
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  Milgram experiment

  The Milgram experiment (Obedience to Authority Study) was a famous scientific experiment of social ... > more
• Spirituality
  Borderline Personality Disorder
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  Self-awareness

  Self-awareness is the understanding that one exists. Furthermore, it includes the concept that one exists as an individual, separate from other people, with private ... > more
• Mental Health
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  Delusion

  A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. In psychiatry, the definition is ... > more

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