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• 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
• Psychology
  Behavior
  Intelligence
  Social Psychology
  Child Psychology
  Dementia
   
  

  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
• Autism
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Children's Health
  Sports Medicine
  Child Development
  Psychiatry
   
  

  Asperger syndrome

  Asperger syndrome, also referred to as Asperger's syndrome, Asperger's, or just AS, is one of five neurobiological pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) that is characterized by deficiencies in ... > more
• ADD and ADHD
  Mental Health
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Psychiatry
  Child Development
  Educational Psychology
   
  

  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
• Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Psychiatry
  Accident and Trauma
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Educational Psychology
   
  

  Pyromania

  Pyromania is an obsession with fire and starting fires, in an intentional fashion, usually on multiple occasions. It should be contrasted with other acts of arson. To qualify as true pyromania, the ... > more
• Psychiatry
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Child Psychology
  Anxiety
  Child Development
  Perception
   

  Emotional detachment

  Emotional detachment can mean two different things. In the first meaning, it refers to an inability to connect with others on an emotional level, as well as a means of coping with anxiety by avoiding ... > more
• Language Acquisition
  Child Development
  Perception
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
   
  

  Stuttering

  Stuttering (known as stammering in the UK and scientifically known as dysphemia) is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by prolongations, repetitions, and blocks of sounds, ... > more
• Neuroscience
  Nervous System
  Perception
  Psychology Research
  Hypertension
  Spirituality
   
  

  Alpha wave

  Alpha waves are electromagnetic oscillations in the frequency range of 8-12 Hz arising from synchronous and coherent (in phase / constructive) electrical activity of large groups of neurons in the ... > more
• Attention Deficit Disorder
  ADD and ADHD
  Mental Health
  Mental Health Research
  Children's Health
  Psychiatry
   
  

  Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (sometimes referred to as ADD for those without hyperactivity) is thought to be a neurological disorder, always present from childhood, which manifests ... > more
• Psychology
  Behavior
  Social Psychology
  Child Psychology
  Intelligence
  Mental Health
   
  

  Psychologist

  A psychologist is a scientist who studies psychology, the systematic investigation of the human behavior and mental processes. Psychologists are usually categorized under a number of different ... > more

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