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• ADD and ADHD
  Mental Health
  Nutrition Research
  Child Development
  Psychiatry
  Child Psychology
   

  Hyperactivity

  Hyperactivity can be described as a physical state in which a person is abnormally and easily excitable or exuberant. Strong emotional reactions, impulsive behavior, and a short span of attention are ... > more
• Stress
  Mental Health Research
  Mental Health
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Workplace Health
   
  

  Stress (medicine)

  Stress is a medical term for a wide range of strong external stimuli, both physiological and psychological, which can cause a physiological response called the general adaptation syndrome. ... > more
• Educational Psychology
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Child Development
  Mental Health
  Perception
  Behavior
   

  Developmental disability

  Developmental disability is a term used to describe severe, life-long disabilities attributable to mental and/or physical impairments, manifested before the age of ... > more
• Children's Health
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Child Psychology
  Controlled Substances
  Sports Medicine
   

  Child abuse

  Child abuse is the physical or psychological maltreatment of a child by an adult, often synonymous with the term child maltreatment or the term child abuse and neglect. There are many forms of abuse ... > more
• Autism
  Neuroscience
  Social Psychology
  Brain Injury
  Monkeys
  Disorders and Syndromes
   
  

  Mirror neuron

  A mirror neuron is a neuron which fires both when an animal performs an action and when the animal observes the same action performed by another (especially conspecific) animal. Thus, the neuron ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Sports Medicine
  Perception
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
   

  Hallucination

  A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. Hallucinations may occur in ... > more
• Anger Management
  Social Psychology
  Behavior
  Psychology
  Child Development
  Gender Difference
   

  Aggression

  In psychology and other social and behavioral sciences, aggression refers to behavior that is intended to cause harm or pain. Aggression can be either physical or verbal, and behavior is classified ... > more
• Psychology
  Behavior
  Intelligence
  Social Psychology
  Child Psychology
  Dementia
   
  

  Cognitive psychology

  Cognitive Psychology is the school of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language. It had its foundations in the Gestalt psychology of Max ... > more
• Anger Management
  Educational Psychology
  Child Psychology
  Child Development
  Social Psychology
  Psychology
   
  

  Bullying

  In colloquial speech, bullying is most often used to describe a form of harassment perpetrated by someone who is in some way more powerful, physically or socially, than a weaker peer. Researchers ... > more
• Attention Deficit Disorder
  ADD and ADHD
  Mental Health
  Mental Health Research
  Children's Health
  Psychiatry
   
  

  Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (sometimes referred to as ADD for those without hyperactivity) is thought to be a neurological disorder, always present from childhood, which manifests ... > more
• Autism
  Child Development
  Birth Defects
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Children's Health
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Autism

  Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder that manifests itself in markedly abnormal social interaction, communication ability, patterns of interests, and patterns of behavior. Although ... > more
• Mental Health Research
  Psychiatry
  Mental Health
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Depression
   
  

  Mental disorder

  Mental disorder or mental illness are terms used to refer psychological pattern that occurs in an individual and is usually associated with distress or disability that is not expected as part of ... > more

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