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  Neurosis

  In modern psychology, the term neurosis, also known as psychoneurosis or neurotic disorder, is a general term that refers to any mental imbalance that causes distress, but does not interfere with ... > more
• Brain Injury
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  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
• Nervous System
  Neuroscience
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  Perception
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  Sensory neuron

  Sensory neurons are nerve cells within the nervous system responsible for converting external stimuli from the organism's environment into internal electrical impulses. For example, some sensory ... > more
• Brain Injury
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  Amnesia

  Amnesia (or amnaesia in Commonwealth English) is a condition in which memory is disturbed. The causes of amnesia are organic or functional. Organic causes include damage to the brain, through trauma ... > more
• Gender Difference
  Racial Issues
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  Misogyny

  Misogyny is hatred or strong prejudice against women. Compared with anti-woman sexism or misandry (hatred or fear of, or strong prejudice against men), misogyny is usually regarded as directed ... > more
• Intelligence
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  Educational Psychology
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  Intelligence quotient

  An intelligence quotient or IQ is a score derived from a set of standardized tests developed to measure a person's cognitive abilities ("intelligence") in relation to their age group. An IQ test does ... > more
• Depression
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  Clinical depression

  Clinical depression is a state of sadness or melancholia that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual's social functioning and/or activities of daily living. The diagnosis may ... > more
• Language Acquisition
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  Psycholinguistics

  Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language. Initial forays into ... > more
• Psychology
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  Neuropsychology

  Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology and neurology that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relate to specific psychological processes. It is scientific in its ... > more
• Anxiety
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  Borderline Personality Disorder
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  Perfectionism (psychology)

  Perfectionism, in psychology, is a belief that perfection should be strived for. In its pathological form, it is an unhealthy belief that anything less than perfect is unacceptable. Perfectionism can ... > more

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