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  Perception
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  Stem Cells
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  Retina

  The retina is a thin layer of neural cells that lines the back of the eyeball of vertebrates and some cephalopods. In vertebrate embryonic development, the retina and the optic nerve originate as ... > more
• Illegal Drugs
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  Psychopharmacology

  Psychopharmacology is the study of drug-induced changes in mood, thinking, and behavior. These drugs may originate from natural sources such as plants and animals, or from artificial sources such as ... > more
• Eating Disorder Research
  Eating Disorders
  Diet and Weight Loss
  Obesity
  Mental Health Research
  Healthy Aging
   

  Anorexia nervosa

  Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by voluntary starvation and exercise stress. Anorexia nervosa is a complex disease, involving psychological, sociological and physiological ... > more
• Epilepsy Research
  Epilepsy
  Disorders and Syndromes
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  Chronic Illness
  Birth Defects
   

  Epilepsy

  Epilepsy (sometimes referred to as a seizure disorder) is a common chronic neurological condition that is characterized by recurrent unprovoked epileptic seizures. These seizures are transient signs ... > more
• Eye Care
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Diet and Weight Loss
  Dieting and Weight Control
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  Bitemporal hemianopsia

  Bitemporal hemianopsia (or Bitemporal hemianopia) is the medical description of a type of partial blindness where vision is missing in the outer half of both the right and left visual field. It is ... > more
• Attention Deficit Disorder
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  Diseases and Conditions
  Disability
   

  Double blind

  The double blind method is an important part of the scientific method, used to prevent research outcomes from being 'influenced' by the placebo effect or observer bias. Blinded research is an ... > more
• Attention Deficit Disorder
  ADD and ADHD
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  Children's Health
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  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
• Nervous System
  Biology
  Neuropathy
  Life Sciences
  Neuroscience
  Disability
   

  Peripheral nervous system

  The peripheral nervous system or PNS, is part of the nervous system, and consists of the nerves and neurons that reside or extend outside the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) to ... > more
• PTSD
  Mental Health Research
  Psychiatry
  Stress
  Mental Health
  Depression
   
  

  Post-traumatic stress disorder

  Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a term for certain psychological consequences of exposure to, or confrontation with, stressful experiences that the person experiences as highly traumatic. ... > more
• Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Pharmacology
  Personalized Medicine
  Pharmaceuticals
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  Nocebo

  In the strictest sense, a nocebo response is where a drug-trial's subject's symptoms are worsened by the administration of an inert, sham, or dummy (simulator) treatment, called a placebo. In its ... > more

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