Living With Social Anxiety: What is Social Anxiety and how to treat it
Living with social anxiety. Calm down, calm down, calm down. But you can’t. Your voice is shaking and your hands are trembling, clutching that piece […]
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Valerie is a psychology student who is trying to pursue a career in Cognitive Neuroscience. She is passionate about the brain and finds it fascinating. She loves learning about new discoveries and research that is going on in the world of psychology and neuroscience. One day she hopes to contribute to the scientific community!
Addiction: From Drugs to Brain to Behavior
Addiction is a very common concept in today’s society. When we think about addiction, we usually picture drug addicts, looking for another fix. Addiction, however, […]
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Agoraphobia: Fear of public places and situations
Agoraphobia can make you feel trapped and feel like you are not able to get out. It’s a mental disorder that causes you to worry […]
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Prosopagnosia: Inability To Recognize Loved Ones
Prosopagnosia or face blindness is quite a devastating condition. Imagine, suddenly finding yourself at a position where you are unable to recognize your family and […]
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OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The Danger of Repetitive Behaviors
OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Knock-knock-knock. You knock 3 in a steady manner. Every single wooden piece of furniture in your room needs to be knocked. […]
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Placebo Effect: What is it and how does it work?
The medical and scientific community has recognized the placebo effect for many years. For a person that is not involved with science, the phrase might […]
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Optogenetics: An all powerful revolutionary technique?
Optogenetics is a new form of stimulating and controlling cells in the living tissue. Research is advancing in ways that we have not thought imaginable […]
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Microsleep: What is it, symptoms and dangers of sleep deprivation
Microsleep is such a common that many don’t even realize the real-life dangers of it. It is one thing to doze off in class for […]
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Choosing The Best ADHD Medication For Your Child
Are you thinking of choosing the best ADHD medication for your child? Having a child diagnosed with ADHD can be a trying and stressful experience, […]
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Vitamin B12 Deficiency: Link With Schizophrenia And Autism
Deficiencies in certain vitamins and nutrients can cause certain problems, both physical and mental and different vitamins respond to different systems in our bodies and […]
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Different Types Of Personality Disorders
Personality disorders are characterized by a pervasive and impairing pattern of problems and issues regarding self-identity and interpersonal relationships. There are different types of personality […]
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What Is A Personality Disorder?
Throughout the world there are many mental disorders, different from one another with different causes, symptoms and treatments. Mental disorders can overlap in one individual […]
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Treatment For Alzheimer’s: New Research And Approved Drugs
For Alzheimer’s disease we have many theories on causes and different prevention techniques and lifestyle tips that might help us delay the onset of the […]
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Diet And Alzheimer’s Disease: Eat For Your Future!
Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease that affects millions of people worldwide. There has been a lot of research done on ways to find the cause, […]
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The Curious Case of Phineas Gage: Traumatic Brain Injury
The story of Phineas Gage is an extraordinarily famous one and is known to every introductory psychology student. In fact, it is one of the […]
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Dementia Home Care: What You Need To Know
Dementia Home Care: What You Need To Know So what do you do if one of your loved ones has been diagnosed with dementia or […]
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Bilingualism And Alzheimer’s Disease
In the past few years researchers and scientists worldwide have been looking into Alzheimer’s disease more and more, in order to not only find the […]
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My Kid Is Sad: Symptoms Of Childhood Depression
Depression is a common diagnosis in today’s society. People feel down all the time, due to every day stressors, due to anxiety, due to a […]
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Fear Of Abandonment and Borderline Personality Disorder
Abandonment. A word that doesn’t feel good to anyone. Who would ever want to be abandoned? We, humans, are social beings. We like being around […]
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Never Ending Worry: Living With Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Feeling nervous and worried is a natural and quite common response to a frightening stimulus. Anxiety is natural even if it brings […]
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Dyscalculia: Math Disability
There is currently no cure for math disability. Even though an official treatment program hasn’t been developed yet and no official medication has been approved, […]
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Immediate And Delayed Echolalia
Amythest Schaber is a popular YouTube persona that makes videos about autism from the point of view of somebody who was diagnosed with autism – […]
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Lack Of Sleep During Pregnancy: Why Can’t I Fall Asleep?
Pregnancy is one of the most complex processes that a woman’s body is able to undergo. Pregnancy involves many physiological and psychological changes that may […]
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Early Onset Alzheimer’s Symptoms: What You Need To Know
When one thinks of Alzheimer’s disease, many can indicate symptoms and factors that are present in the highly developed dementia or in the late stages […]
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