Psychiatry Articles

• Psychiatry
  Bipolar Disorder
  Depression
  Mental Health Research
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Bipolar disorder

  Bipolar disorder (previously known as Manic Depression) is a psychiatric diagnostic category describing a class of mood disorders in which the person experiences clinical depression and/or mania, ... > more
• Depression
  Mental Health
  Mental Health Research
  Psychiatry
  Anxiety
  Disorders and Syndromes
   
  

  Clinical depression

  Clinical depression is a state of sadness or melancholia that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual's social functioning and/or activities of daily living. The diagnosis may ... > more
• Depression
  Gene Therapy
  Mental Health Research
  Mental Health
  Psychiatry
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   

  Seasonal affective disorder

  Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, also known as winter depression is an affective, or mood disorder. Most SAD sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience ... > more
• Eating Disorders
  Eating Disorder Research
  Mental Health Research
  Sports Medicine
  Nutrition Research
  Mental Health
   

  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
• Sleep Disorder Research
  Sleep Disorders
  Insomnia
  Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  Insomnia Research
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Sleep disorder

  A sleep disorder (somnipathy) is a disorder in the sleep patterns of a person or animal. Sleep disorders include: Bruxism; delayed sleep phase syndrome; insomnia: jet lag or desynchronosis; ... > more
• Neuroscience
  Psychiatry
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Depression
  Intelligence
  Mental Health
   

  Psychosurgery

  Psychosurgery is a term for surgeries of the brain involving procedures that modulate the performance of the brain, and thus effect changes in cognition, with the intent to treat or alleviate severe ... > 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
• Attention Deficit Disorder
  Borderline Personality Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Psychiatry
  Eating Disorders
  Mental Health Research
   

  Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

  Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), or anankastic personality disorder, is a personality disorder that is characterized by a general psychological inflexibility, rigid conformity to ... > more
• Mental Health Research
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Sports Medicine
  Healthy Aging
  Teen Health
  Brain Injury
   

  Self-harm

  Self-harm (SH) is deliberate injury inflicted by a person upon his or her own body. Some scholars use more technical definitions related to specific aspects of ... > more
• Sleep Disorder Research
  Sleep Disorders
  Insomnia
  Insomnia Research
  Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  Disorders and Syndromes
   
  

  Delayed sleep phase syndrome

  Delayed sleep-phase syndrome (DSPS) is a chronic disorder of sleep timing. People with DSPS tend to fall asleep at very late times, and also have difficulty waking up in time for school or work which ... > more

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