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• Epilepsy Research
  Epilepsy
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Birth Defects
  Disorders and Syndromes
   

  Seizure

  Seizures are temporary abnormal electro-physiologic phenomena of the brain, resulting in abnormal synchronization of electrical neuronal activity. They can manifest as an alteration in mental state, ... > more
• Alzheimer's Research
  Alzheimer's
  Dementia
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Healthy Aging
  Parkinson's Research
   

  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
• Perception
  Neuroscience
  Nervous System
  Eye Care
  Psychology Research
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Sensory system

  A sensory system is a part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information. A sensory system consists of sensory receptors, neural pathways, and parts of the brain involved in ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Sports Medicine
  Perception
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
   

  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
• Intelligence
  Psychology
  Educational Psychology
  Child Psychology
  Perception
  Child Development
   

  Genius

  A genius is a person with distinguished mental prowess. This can manifest either as a foremost intellect, or as an outstanding creative talent. The IQ of a genius is usually defined as 140 or ... > more
• Behavior
  Psychology
  Intelligence
  Dementia
  Social Psychology
  Psychiatry
   

  Cognitive bias

  A cognitive bias is any of a wide range of observer effects identified in cognitive science and social psychology including very basic statistical, social attribution, and memory errors that are ... > more
• Brain Injury
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Accident and Trauma
  Sports Medicine
  Intelligence
  Brain Tumor
   
  

  Head injury

  Head injury is a trauma to the head, that may or may not include injury to the brain. The incidence (number of new cases) of head injury is 300 per 100,000 per year (0.3% of the population), with a ... > more
• Psychology
  Behavior
  Social Psychology
  Child Psychology
  Intelligence
  Mental Health
   
  

  Psychologist

  A psychologist is a scientist who studies psychology, the systematic investigation of the human behavior and mental processes. Psychologists are usually categorized under a number of different ... > more
• Child Psychology
  Intelligence
  Parenting
  Educational Psychology
  Child Development
  Mental Health
   

  Child prodigy

  A child prodigy is someone who is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age. One generally accepted heuristic for identifying prodigies is the following: a prodigy is someone who, by the ... > more
• Psychology
  Social Psychology
  Child Psychology
  Behavior
  Mental Health
  Stress
   

  Ego psychology

  Ego psychology is a school of psychoanalysis that originated in Sigmund Freud's ego-id-superego model. After Freud, a number of prominent psychoanalytic theorists began to elaborate on Freud's ... > more

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