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• Anxiety
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  Disorders and Syndromes
  Mental Health
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  Phobia

  A phobia is a strong, persistent fear of situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. Some ... > more
• Anxiety
  Racial Issues
  Social Psychology
  Perception
  Psychology
  Educational Psychology
   

  Culture of fear

  Culture of fear is a term that refers to a perceived prevalence of fear and anxiety in public discourse and relationships, and how this may affect the way people interact with one another as ... > more
• Psychiatry
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Mental Health
  Depression
  Child Development
  Autism
   

  Anti-psychiatry

  Anti-psychiatry refers to approaches (sometimes seen as a coherent movement) which fundamentally challenge the theory or practice of mainstream psychiatry in general, and biological psychiatry in ... > more
• Sleep Disorder Research
  Insomnia Research
  Insomnia
  Sleep Disorders
  Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  Disorders and Syndromes
   
  

  Narcolepsy

  Narcolepsy is a neurological condition characterized by severe fatigue, irresistible episodes of sleep and general sleep disorder. The main characteristic of narcolepsy is overwhelming excessive ... > more
• Psychology
  Consumer Behavior
  Intelligence
  Dementia
  Tinnitus
  Behavior
   
  

  Exposure effect

  Exposure effect is a psychological artifact well known to advertisers: people express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them. This effect has been nicknamed the ... > more
• Sleep Disorder Research
  Insomnia Research
  Insomnia
  Sleep Disorders
  Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  Healthy Aging
   

  Narcolepsy

  Narcolepsy is a neurological condition most characterized by Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS), episodes of sleep and disorder of REM or rapid eye movement sleep. It is a type of dyssomnia. The main ... > more
• Educational Psychology
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Child Development
  Mental Health
  Perception
  Behavior
   

  Developmental disability

  Developmental disability is a term used to describe severe, life-long disabilities attributable to mental and/or physical impairments, manifested before the age of ... > more
• PTSD
  Mental Health Research
  Psychiatry
  Stress
  Mental Health
  Depression
   
  

  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
• Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Psychiatry
  Children's Health
  ADD and ADHD
  Down Syndrome
   
  

  Tourette syndrome

  Tourette syndrome (also called Tourette's syndrome, Tourette's disorder, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, GTS or TS) is an inherited neurological disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by the ... > more
• Memory
  Dementia
  Intelligence
  Educational Psychology
  Neuroscience
  Psychology
   
  

  Memory

  Memory is the ability of the brain to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. Although traditional studies of memory began in the realms of philosophy, the late nineteenth and early ... > more

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