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Mirror test
The mirror test is a measure of self-awareness developed by Gordon Gallup Jr in 1970. The test gauges self-awareness by determining whether an animal can recognize its own reflection in a mirror as ... > more -
Social psychology (psychology)
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. The terms thoughts, feelings, and ... > more -
Healthy Aging
Attention Deficit Disorder
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Food Additives
Brain Injury
Sports Medicine
Excitotoxicity
Excitotoxicity is the pathological process by which neurons are damaged and killed by the overactivations of receptors for the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate, such as the NMDA receptor and ... > more -
Social cognition
Social cognition is the study of how people process social information, especially its encoding, storage, retrieval, and application to social situations. There has been much recent interest in the ... > more -
Psychedelic Drugs
Illegal Drugs
Healthy Aging
Attention Deficit Disorder
Sports Medicine
Controlled Substances
Psychedelic drug
Psychedelic drugs are psychoactive drugs whose primary action is to alter the thought processes of the brain. Many psychedelic drugs are thought to disable filters which block or suppress signals ... > more -
Addiction
Controlled Substances
Illegal Drugs
Borderline Personality Disorder
Alcoholism
Mental Health Research
Substance abuse
Substance abuse refers to the overindulgence in and dependence on a stimulant, depressant, chemical substance, herb (plant) or fungus leading to effects that are detrimental to the individual's ... > more -
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 -
Virtual Reality
Video Games
Computer Modeling
Consumer Behavior
Computers and Internet
Computer Programming
Virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment, be it a real or imagined one. Most current virtual reality environments are primarily ... > more
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