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• Addiction
  Controlled Substances
  Illegal Drugs
  Pharmacology
  Pharmaceuticals
  Alcoholism
   

  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
• Psychology
  Intelligence
  Behavioral Science
  Behavior
  Animals
  Memory
   
  

  Animal cognition

  Animal cognition, or cognitive ethology, is the title given to a modern approach to the mental capacities of non human animals. It has developed out of comparative psychology, but has also been ... > 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
• Sleep Disorder Research
  Insomnia Research
  Insomnia
  Sleep Disorders
  Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  Healthy Aging
   

  Narcolepsy

  Narcolepsy is a neurological condition most characterized by Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS), episodes of sleep and disorder of REM or rapid eye movement sleep. It is a type of dyssomnia. The main ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Depression
  Sports Medicine
  Mental Health Research
  Disorders and Syndromes
   
  

  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
• 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
• Insomnia Research
  Insomnia
  Sleep Disorder Research
  Sleep Disorders
  Nature
  Sports Medicine
   

  Circadian rhythm

  A circadian rhythm is a roughly 24 hour cycle in the physiological processes of living beings, including plants, animals, fungi and cyanobacteria. In a strict sense, circadian rhythms are ... > more
• Anger Management
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Psychology Research
   
  

  Anger

  Anger is a term for the emotional aspect of aggression, as a basic aspect of the stress response in animals in which a perceived aggravating stimulus "provokes" a counterresponse which is likewise ... > more
• Psychiatry
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Mental Health Research
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Anxiety
   
  

  Obsessive-compulsive disorder

  Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder; more specifically, it is an anxiety disorder. OCD is manifested in a variety of forms, but it is most commonly characterized by a ... > more
• Perception
  Nutrition Research
  Allergy
  Nervous System
  Human Biology
  Sports Medicine
   

  Taste bud

  Taste buds are small structures on the upper surface of the tongue, soft palate, and epiglottis that provide information about the taste of food being eaten. The human tongue has about 10,000 taste ... > more

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