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• Marijuana
  Controlled Substances
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  Sports Medicine
  Endangered Plants
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  Cannabis

  Cannabis is believed to have originated in the mountainous regions just north of the Himalayas in India. It is also known as hemp, although this term usually refers to cannabis cultivated for ... > more
• Social Psychology
  Perception
  Autism
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Psychology
  Child Development
   

  Empathy

  Empathy is the recognition and understanding of the states of mind, beliefs, desires, and particularly, emotions of others. It is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another's ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Children's Health
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Child Development
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  Erikson's stages of psychosocial development

  Erikson's stages of psychosocial development describes eight developmental stages through which a healthily developing human should pass from infancy to late adulthood. In each stage the person ... > more
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  Hallucination

  A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. Hallucinations may occur in ... > more
• Spirituality
  Neuroscience
  Nervous System
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  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
• Psychiatry
  Mental Health Research
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Mental Health
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Psychiatry

  Psychiatry is a medical specialty dealing with the prevention, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of mental illness. Its primary goal is the relief of mental suffering associated ... > more
• Nervous System
  Neuroscience
  Brain Injury
  Perception
  Developmental Biology
  Psychology Research
   

  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
• Psychology
  Social Psychology
  Behavior
  Relationships
  Intelligence
  Psychiatry
   
  

  Social cognition

  Social cognition is the study of how people process social information, especially its encoding, storage, retrieval, and application to social situations. There has been much recent interest in 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
• Spirituality
  Borderline Personality Disorder
  Psychology
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  Self-awareness

  Self-awareness is the understanding that one exists. Furthermore, it includes the concept that one exists as an individual, separate from other people, with private ... > more

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