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Psychosurgery
Psychosurgery is a term for surgeries of the brain involving procedures that modulate the performance of the brain, and thus effect changes in cognition, with the intent to treat or alleviate severe ... > more -
General anxiety disorder
General anxiety disorder or generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by excessive and uncontrollable worry about everyday things. The frequency, intensity, and ... > more -
Borderline Personality Disorder
Psychiatry
Disorders and Syndromes
Attention Deficit Disorder
Eating Disorders
Mental Health Research
Personality disorder
Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and behaviour. Because of the inflexibility and pervasiveness of these ... > more -
Healthy Aging
Attention Deficit Disorder
Depression
Sports Medicine
Disorders and Syndromes
Mental Health Research
Deep brain stimulation
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is one of a group of treatments involving surgical implantation of a medical device called a brain pacemaker, which sends electrical impulses to specific parts of the ... > more -
Children's Health
Attention Deficit Disorder
Healthy Aging
Child Psychology
Controlled Substances
Sports Medicine
Child abuse
Child abuse is the physical or psychological maltreatment of a child by an adult, often synonymous with the term child maltreatment or the term child abuse and neglect. There are many forms of abuse ... > more -
Anxiety
Psychiatry
Attention Deficit Disorder
Disorders and Syndromes
Healthy Aging
Mental Health Research
Panic attack
A panic attack is a period of intense, often temporarily disabling sense of extreme fear or psychological distress, typically of abrupt onset. Though it is often a purely terrifying feeling to the ... > more -
Eating Disorders
Eating Disorder Research
Nutrition Research
Diet and Weight Loss
Mental Health Research
Psychiatry
Eating disorder
An eating disorder is a compulsion in which the main problem is a person eats in a way which disturbs their physical health. The eating may be too excessive (compulsive over-eating), too limited ... > more -
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 -
Controversy about ADHD
The psychiatric diagnosis of Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has attracted an assortment of critical positions that individually challenge the ontology or preconceptions of the ... > more
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