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• Hearing Impairment
  Hearing Loss
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  Hearing impairment

  A hearing impairment is a decrease in one's ability to hear (i.e. perceive auditory information). While some cases of hearing loss are reversible with medical treatment, many lead to a permanent ... > more
• Alzheimer's
  Dementia
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  Mad Cow Disease
  Huntington's Disease
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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
• Nervous System
  Neuroscience
  Perception
  Psychology Research
  Healthy Aging
  Developmental Biology
   

  Olfaction

  Olfaction, the sense of odor (smell), is the detection of chemicals dissolved in air (or in water, by animals that live under water). In vertebrates smells are sensed by the olfactory epithelium ... > more
• Sleep Disorder Research
  Sleep Disorders
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  Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  Disorders and Syndromes
   
  

  Delayed sleep phase syndrome

  Delayed sleep-phase syndrome (DSPS) is a chronic disorder of sleep timing. People with DSPS tend to fall asleep at very late times, and also have difficulty waking up in time for school or work which ... > more
• Nervous System
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  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
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  Neocortex

  The neocortex is a part of the brain of mammals. It is the top layer of the cerebral hemispheres, 2-4 mm thick, and made up of six layers, labelled I to VI (with VI being the innermost and I being ... > more
• Eye Care
  Nervous System
  Neuroscience
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  Psychology Research
  Brain Injury
   
  

  Visual system

  The visual system is the part of the nervous system which allows organisms to see. It interprets the information from visible light to build a representation of the world surrounding the body. The ... > more
• Borderline Personality Disorder
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  Anger Management
  Mental Health
  Eating Disorders
   
  

  Narcissistic personality disorder

  Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a form of pathological narcissism that first appeared as a disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980, in the edition ... > more
• Perception
  Computer Programming
  Computer Graphics
  Artificial Intelligence
  Neuroscience
  Psychology
   
  

  Motion perception

  Motion perception is the process of inferring the speed and direction of objects that move in a visual scene given some visual input. While this process appears straighforward to most observers, it ... > more
• Schizophrenia
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  Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia

  The dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia or the dopamine hypothesis of psychosis is a theory that argues that the unusual behaviour and experiences associated with schizophrenia (sometimes extended ... > more
• Parkinson's
  Parkinson's Research
  Disorders and Syndromes
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  Parkinson's disease

  Parkinson's disease (paralysis agitans or PD) is a neurodegenerative disease of the substantia nigra, an area in the basal ganglia of the brain. The disease involves a progressive disorder of the ... > more

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