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  Child prodigy

  A child prodigy is someone who is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age. One generally accepted heuristic for identifying prodigies is the following: a prodigy is someone who, by the ... > more
• Illegal Drugs
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  Healthy Aging
  Epigenetics
   
  

  Psychoactive drug

  A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical substance that acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, ... > more
• Gender Difference
  Relationships
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  Social Psychology
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  Homosexuality

  Homosexuality can refer to both attraction or sexual behavior between people of the same sex, or to a sexual orientation. When describing the latter, it refers to enduring sexual and romantic ... > more
• Infant's Health
  Healthy Aging
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Birth Defects
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Child Development
   
  

  Premature birth

  Premature birth (also known as preterm birth) is defined medically as childbirth occurring earlier than 37 completed weeks of gestation. Most pregnancies last about 40 weeks. About 12 percent of ... > more
• Alternative Medicine
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  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Breast Cancer
  Diseases and Conditions
   
  

  Yoga (alternative medicine)

  Yoga is a healing system of theory and practice, its a combination of breathing exercises, physical postures, and meditation, practiced for over 5,000 years. A survey released in May 2004 by the ... > more
• Headaches
  Headache Research
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Diseases and Conditions
  Cold and Flu
  Sports Medicine
   

  Cluster headache

  Cluster headaches are rare, extremely painful and debilitating headaches that occur in groups or clusters. Cluster headache sufferers typically experience severe headaches of a piercing quality near ... > more
• Brain Injury
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Accident and Trauma
  Sports Medicine
  Intelligence
  Brain Tumor
   
  

  Head injury

  Head injury is a trauma to the head, that may or may not include injury to the brain. The incidence (number of new cases) of head injury is 300 per 100,000 per year (0.3% of the population), with a ... > more
• Pharmacology
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Medical Imaging
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  Diseases and Conditions
   

  Pharmacology

  Pharmacology is the study of how substances interact with living organisms to produce a change in function. If substances have medicinal properties, they are considered pharmaceuticals. The field ... > more
• Mental Health
  Psychiatry
  Depression
  Schizophrenia
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Spirituality
   

  Delusion

  A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. In psychiatry, the definition is ... > more
• Psychology
  Social Psychology
  Dieting and Weight Control
  Relationships
  Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  Perception
   
  

  Altruism

  Altruism is selfless concern for the welfare of others. It is a traditional virtue in many cultures, and central to many religious traditions. In English, this idea was often described as the Golden ... > more

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