| Autism Autism is a brain development disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism
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| Personality psychology Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and individual differences. One emphasis in this area is to construct a coherent picture of a person and his or her major psychological processes . Another emphasis views personality as the study of individual differences, in other words, how people differ from each other. A third area of emphasis examines human nature and how all people are similar to one another. These three viewpoints merge together in the study of personality. Personality_psychology
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| Spencer Perceval Spencer_Perceval
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| Sign language in infants and toddlers sign language is sometimes used to communicate with infants and toddlers. While infants and toddlers have a desire to communicate their needs and wishes, they lack the ability to do so clearly because the production of speech lags behind cognitive ability in the first months and years of life. Sign_language_in_infants_and_toddlers
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| Phineas Gage Phineas P. Gage (July 9?, 1823 – May 21, 1860) was a railroad construction foreman frontal lobes,Long known as "the American crowbar case" physiological doctrines" localization Phineas_Gage
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| Eros (concept) Eros ( érōs) is passionate love, with sensual desire and longing. The Modern Greek word "erotas" means "(romantic) love". The term erotic is derived from eros. Eros_(concept)
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| Charles Samuel Myers Charles Samuel Myers (1873 English psychologist, who coined the term shell shock. He was co-founder of the British Psychological Society and the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. Charles_Samuel_Myers
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| History of neurology neurology dates back to prehistoric times, but the academic discipline did not begin until the 16th century. From an observational science it developed a systematic way of approaching the nervous system and possible interventions in neurological disease. History_of_neurology
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| Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder This article is intended to focus on the condition in adults. See also main article, Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (also referred to as Adult ADHD, Adult ADD, or AADD) is the common term used to describe the neuropsychiatric condition "attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder" (ADHD) when it is present in adults. Adult_attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder
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| Prefrontal cortex "Prefrontal" redirects here. For the skull bone, see Prefrontal bone. For the reptile scales, see Prefrontal scale.The prefrontal cortex is the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain, lying in front of the motor and premotor areas.This brain region has been implicated in planning complex cognitive behaviors, personality expression, decision making and moderating correct social behavior. Prefrontal_cortex
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| Love sickness Love sickness is a non-medical term used to describe mental and physical symptoms associated with falling in love.Historically, love sickness has been viewed as a mental illness brought on by the intense changes associated with love. Universally acknowledged polymath Avicenna, a Persian, viewed obsession as the principal symptom and cause of love sickness. This diagnosis has been out of favor since the humoral model has been abandoned, and since the advent of modern scientific psychiatry. Love_sickness
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| George Widener George Widener (b.1962) is a self-taught artist who uses his vast calculating and image-making capacity to create complicated and complex artworks of great beauty and vision. Darold Treffert has said, a "prodigious savant' with multiple talents. He has “outstanding computational ability" , and is a “date genius" which together with his extreme artistic capabilities have made him the subject in numerous films, most recently in “Quarks and Company” (2006), Bruno Decharme's "George Widener" (2006) and National Geographic’s “My Beautiful Brain” (2007). George_Widener
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| Banality of evil The banality of evil is a phrase coined by Hannah Arendt and incorporated in the title of her 1963 work Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. It describes the thesis that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths but rather by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal. Banality_of_evil
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| Interpretative phenomenological analysis Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is an approach to psychological qualitative research with an idiographic focus, which means that it aims to offer insights into how a given person, in a given context, makes sense of a given phenomenon. Usually these phenomena relate to experiences of some personal significance - such as a major life event, or the development of an important relationship. Interpretative_phenomenological_analysis
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| Biopsychiatry controversy/Archive2 Talk:Biopsychiatry_controversy/Archive2
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| Dysexecutive syndrome Dysexecutive Syndrome is a term for numerous cognitive, emotional & behavioural symptoms which tend to occur comorbidly following a brain injury to the frontal lobes, or more specifically to specific prefrontal cortex areas. Dysexecutive Syndrome is generally considered to be a dysfunction of the Executive functions. Dysexecutive_syndrome
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| Matt Jarvis (psychologist) Matt Jarvis (born 1966) is a British psychologist. He is notable for his expertise in the teaching of introductory psychology. Teaching post-16 psychology at totton college in totton, is the standard text for trainee psychology teachers in the UK. He is a leading writer of introductory psychology textbooks and known for his research into the teaching and learning of introductory psychology. Matt_Jarvis_(psychologist)
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| James Bailey (author) Bailey was born in Arkansas City, Kansas and completed high school in Westlake, Louisiana. Some time after this he went to Hollywood seeking an acting career where he went to acting school and eventually got some minor roles in television and films.Not long after his arrival in Hollywood, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) began to manifest along with severe depression and anxiety. James_Bailey_(author)
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