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  Anchoring

  Anchoring or focalism is a term used in psychology to describe the common human tendency to rely too heavily, or "anchor," on one trait or piece of information when making decisions. During normal ... > more
• ADD and ADHD
  Memory
  Perception
  Mental Health
  Psychology
  Intelligence
   
  

  Attention

  Attention is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one thing while ignoring other things. Attention is one of the most intensely studied topics within psychology and cognitive ... > more
• Behavior
  Anger Management
  Social Psychology
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Borderline Personality Disorder
  Psychiatry
   
  

  Passive-aggressive behavior

  Passive-aggressive behavior refers to passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations. Sometimes a method of dealing with stress ... > more
• Epilepsy Research
  Epilepsy
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Birth Defects
  Disorders and Syndromes
   

  Seizure

  Seizures are temporary abnormal electro-physiologic phenomena of the brain, resulting in abnormal synchronization of electrical neuronal activity. They can manifest as an alteration in mental state, ... > more
• Anger Management
  Social Psychology
  Psychology
  Relationships
  Educational Psychology
  Borderline Personality Disorder
   

  Self-esteem

  In psychology, self-esteem or self-worth includes a person's subjective appraisal of himself or herself as intrinsically positive or negative to some degree (Sedikides & Gregg, 2003).Self-esteem ... > more
• Headaches
  Headache Research
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Healthy Aging
  Diseases and Conditions
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   

  Migraine

  Migraine is a neurologic disease, of which the most common symptom is an intense and disabling headache. Migraine is the most common type of vascular headache. Migraine headaches are usually ... > more
• Intelligence
  Language Acquisition
  Neuroscience
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  Brain Injury
   
  

  Thought

  Thought or thinking is a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. Thinking involves manipulation ... > more
• Intelligence
  Psychology
  Educational Psychology
  Neuroscience
  Child Psychology
  Child Development
   
  

  Intelligence quotient

  An intelligence quotient or IQ is a score derived from a set of standardized tests developed to measure a person's cognitive abilities ("intelligence") in relation to their age group. An IQ test does ... > more
• Psychiatry
  Mental Health Research
  Depression
  Mental Health
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Healthy Aging
   

  Biological psychiatry

  Biological psychiatry, or biopsychiatry is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous system. It is interdisciplinary in its ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Psychology
  Sports Medicine
  Borderline Personality Disorder
  Perception
   
  

  Emotion

  Emotion, in its most general definition, is a neural impulse that moves an organism to action, prompting automatic reactive behavior that has been adapted through evolution as a survival mechanism to ... > more

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