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Platonic love
Platonic love in its modern popular sense is an affectionate relationship into which the sexual element does not enter, especially in cases where one might easily assume otherwise. A simple example ... > more -
Psychiatry
Attention Deficit Disorder
Healthy Aging
Mental Health Research
Disorders and Syndromes
Anxiety
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder; more specifically, it is an anxiety disorder. OCD is manifested in a variety of forms, but it is most commonly characterized by a ... > more -
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive Psychology is the school of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language. It had its foundations in the Gestalt psychology of Max ... > 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 -
Methylphenidate
Methylphenidate (MPH) is an amphetamine-like prescription stimulant commonly used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children and ... > 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 -
Delusional parasitosis
Delusional parasitosis is a form of psychosis in which sufferers hold a delusional belief they are infested with parasites. It is usually diagnosed as a subtype of delusional disorder. A related ... > more -
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 -
List of cognitive biases
Cognitive bias is distortion in the way we perceive reality. Many of these biases are often studied for how they affect business and economic decisions and how they affect scientific and experimental ... > more
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