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• Infant's Health
  Healthy Aging
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Birth Defects
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Child Development
   
  

  Premature birth

  Premature birth (also known as preterm birth) is defined medically as childbirth occurring earlier than 37 completed weeks of gestation. Most pregnancies last about 40 weeks. About 12 percent of ... > more
• Spirituality
  Neuroscience
  Nervous System
  Sports Medicine
  Healthy Aging
  Alternative Medicine
   
  

  Meditation

  Meditation is the practice of focusing attention, often formalized into a specific routine. Meditation is usually recognized as a component of Eastern religions, originating in Vedic Hinduism, but it ... > more
• Neuroscience
  Nervous System
  Psychology Research
  Intelligence
  Language Acquisition
  Memory
   
  

  Amygdala

  The amygdala (Latin, corpus amygdaloideum) is an almond-shape set of neurons located deep in the brain's medial temporal lobe. Shown to play a key role in the processsing of emotions, the amygdala ... > more
• Headaches
  Headache Research
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Diseases and Conditions
  Cold and Flu
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  Cluster headache

  Cluster headaches are rare, extremely painful and debilitating headaches that occur in groups or clusters. Cluster headache sufferers typically experience severe headaches of a piercing quality near ... > more
• Depression
  Mental Health
  Mental Health Research
  Psychiatry
  Anxiety
  Disorders and Syndromes
   
  

  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
• Eating Disorders
  Eating Disorder Research
  Mental Health Research
  Sports Medicine
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  Mental Health
   

  Bulimia nervosa

  Bulimia nervosa, more commonly known as bulimia, is an eating disorder. It is a psychological condition in which the subject engages in recurrent binge eating followed by intentionally doing one or ... > more
• Attention Deficit Disorder
  ADD and ADHD
  Mental Health
  Mental Health Research
  Children's Health
  Disorders and Syndromes
   

  Adult attention-deficit disorder

  Adult attention deficit disorder (AADD) refers to the psychiatric condition currently known as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (also known as attention deficit disorder (ADD)) when it ... > more
• Social Psychology
  Borderline Personality Disorder
  Psychology
  Relationships
  Perception
  Child Psychology
   

  Self image

  A person's self image is the mental picture, generally of a kind that is quite resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to objective investigation by others ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
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  Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Epilepsy Research
  Epilepsy
   

  Anticonvulsant

  The anticonvulsants, sometimes also called antiepileptics, belong to a diverse group of pharmaceuticals used in prevention of the occurrence of epileptic seizures. The goal of an anticonvulsant is to ... > more
• Neuroscience
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  Psychology Research
  Intelligence
  Encephalitis
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Limbic system

  The limbic system is the collective name for structures in the human brain involved in emotion, motivation, and emotional association with memory. It affects motivation and is more active in ... > more

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