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• Attention Deficit Disorder
  Borderline Personality Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Psychiatry
  Eating Disorders
  Mental Health Research
   

  Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

  Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), or anankastic personality disorder, is a personality disorder that is characterized by a general psychological inflexibility, rigid conformity to ... > more
• Schizophrenia
  Parkinson's
  Controlled Substances
  Illegal Drugs
  Insomnia
  Pharmacology
   
  

  Dopamine

  Dopamine is a chemical naturally produced in the body. In the brain, dopamine functions as a neurotransmitter, activating dopamine receptors. Dopamine can be supplied as a medication that acts on the ... > more
• Depression
  Gene Therapy
  Mental Health Research
  Mental Health
  Psychiatry
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   

  Seasonal affective disorder

  Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, also known as winter depression is an affective, or mood disorder. Most SAD sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience ... > 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
• Addiction
  Alcoholism
  Controlled Substances
  Illegal Drugs
  Smoking Addiction
  Cocaine
   

  Addiction

  Addiction is a chronic disorder proposed to be precipitated by a combination of genetic, biological/pharmacological and social factors. Addiction is a compulsion to repeat a behaviour regardless of ... > more
• Neuroscience
  Psychiatry
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Depression
  Intelligence
  Mental Health
   

  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
• Opium
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Addiction
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
   

  Opioid

  An opioid is any agent that binds to opioid receptors, found principally in the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract. There are four broad classes of opioids: endogenous opioid peptides, ... > more
• Nervous System
  Neuroscience
  Brain Injury
  Perception
  Developmental Biology
  Molecular Biology
   

  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
• Anxiety
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Racial Issues
  Sports Medicine
  Animals
   

  Fear

  Fear is an unpleasant feeling of perceived risk or danger, whether it be real or imagined. Fear also can be described as a feeling of extreme dislike towards certain conditions, objects or situations ... > 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

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