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Peripheral nervous system
The peripheral nervous system or PNS, is part of the nervous system, and consists of the nerves and neurons that reside or extend outside the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) to ... > more -
Educational Psychology
Intelligence
Child Development
Language Acquisition
Disorders and Syndromes
Perception
Learning disability
In the United States and Canada, the term learning disability is used to refer to psychological and neurological conditions that affect a person's communicative capacities and potential to be taught ... > 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 -
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Chomsky is credited with the creation of the ... > more -
Methylphenidate
Methylphenidate (MPH) is an amphetamine-like prescription stimulant commonly used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children and ... > more -
Schizophrenia
Mental Health Research
Mental Health
Psychiatry
Disorders and Syndromes
Attention Deficit Disorder
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by persistent defects in the perception or the expression of reality. A person experiencing untreated schizophrenia typically demonstrates ... > more -
Language Acquisition
Child Development
Perception
Healthy Aging
Attention Deficit Disorder
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Stuttering
Stuttering (known as stammering in the UK and scientifically known as dysphemia) is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by prolongations, repetitions, and blocks of sounds, ... > more -
Autistic spectrum
The autistic spectrum (sometimes referred to as the autism spectrum) is a developmental and behavioral syndrome that results from certain combinations of characteristically autistic traits. Although ... > more
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