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Sleep Disorder Research
Sleep Disorders
Insomnia
Insomnia Research
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Disorders and Syndromes
Delayed sleep phase syndrome
Delayed sleep-phase syndrome (DSPS) is a chronic disorder of sleep timing. People with DSPS tend to fall asleep at very late times, and also have difficulty waking up in time for school or work which ... > more -
Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's Research
Healthy Aging
Dementia
Disorders and Syndromes
Attention Deficit Disorder
Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD), also known simply as Alzheimer's, is a neurodegenerative disease that, in its most common form, is found in people over age 65. Approximately 24 million people worldwide ... > more -
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 -
Dementia with Lewy bodies
Dementia with Lewy bodies is the second most frequent cause of hospitalization for dementia, after Alzheimer's disease. Current estimates are that about 60 to 75% of diagnosed dementias are of the ... > more -
Night terror
A night terror, also known as sleep terror or pavor nocturnus, is a parasomnia sleep disorder characterized by extreme terror and a temporary inability to regain full consciousness. The subject wakes ... > more -
Healthy Aging
Attention Deficit Disorder
Depression
Sports Medicine
Disorders and Syndromes
Mental Health Research
Deep brain stimulation
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is one of a group of treatments involving surgical implantation of a medical device called a brain pacemaker, which sends electrical impulses to specific parts of the ... > more -
Mirror neuron
A mirror neuron is a neuron which fires both when an animal performs an action and when the animal observes the same action performed by another (especially conspecific) animal. Thus, the neuron ... > more -
Psychiatry
Bipolar Disorder
Depression
Mental Health Research
Disorders and Syndromes
Attention Deficit Disorder
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder (previously known as Manic Depression) is a psychiatric diagnostic category describing a class of mood disorders in which the person experiences clinical depression and/or mania, ... > more -
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) describes a spectrum of permanent and often devastating birth-defect syndromes caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during ... > more
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