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• Addiction
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  Drug addiction

  Drug addiction, or substance dependence is the compulsive use of psychoactive drugs, to the point where the user has no effective choice but to continue use. Drug addiction has two components: ... > 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
• 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
• Eating Disorders
  Eating Disorder Research
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  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
• Hormone Disorders
  Menopause
  Molecular Biology
  Prostate Cancer
  Cell Biology
  Diabetes
   

  Hormone

  A hormone is a chemical messenger from one cell (or group of cells) to another. All multicellular organisms produce hormones including plants. The best-known animal (and human) hormones are those ... > more
• Psychiatry
  Depression
  Mental Health
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Anxiety
  Child Development
   

  Biological psychiatry

  Biological psychiatry, or biopsychiatry is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous ... > 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
• Autism
  Children's Health
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Birth Defects
  Healthy Aging
  Down Syndrome
   

  Rett syndrome

  Rett syndrome (or Rett's disorder) is a progressive neurological disorder that is classified as a pervasive developmental disorder by the DSM-IV. The symptoms of this disorder are easily confused ... > 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
• Nervous System
  Neuroscience
  Psychology Research
  Hormone Disorders
  Sports Medicine
  Gynecology
   
  

  Hypothalamus

  In mammals, the hypothalamus is a region of the brain located below the thalamus, forming the major portion of the ventral region of the diencephalon and functioning to regulate certain metabolic ... > more

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