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difficulty grasping mathematical concepts (Fidler, Hodapp and Dyken, 2002). While not every child with WS fits this profile, a lar...

physician Enrique Morselli back in 1891 as dysmorphophobia, BDD has been defined as "the fear of having a deformity" (Hunt, Thienh...

the characteristics inherent in personality disorders are present in everyone, just to a lesser degree. Randolph Nesse, a psychiat...

patients experiencing either symptoms or full episodes of depression much more frequently than those of mania or hypomania" (Micha...

is that the efforts of bulimic patients to restrict food are interspersed with periods of extreme overeating, or "binging," which ...

contract, not smiling at appropriate times (Bressert, 2006). The incidence of shyness is much less than that of social phobia bu...

with some type of cognitive deficit disorder such as dementia or Alzheimers. In order to anticipate the percentage of those who w...

behavior stems from a portion of psychology that addresses the issue of behaviorism. As it evolved into a significant discipline ...

When researchers looked into what might cause this shrinkage, it was found that it could be the result of having loss of glia, whi...

to a Veterans Administration (VA) inpatient program for the treatment of substance abuse. Research has definitively established ...

produced or vowels, dipthongs, and consonants (Toppelberg, Munir, and Nieto-Castanon, 2006). One of the primary culprits ...

group, such as "those that control the eye," or it may become more generalized (Yee). The patients facial expression and speech ma...

Another loss of life associated with war is the loss of wildlife and the destruction of nature. War creates battlefields that rese...

bipolar disorder will participate in this study. Diagnostic procedures will include DSM-IV multiaxial evaluation, physical examina...

around 8 or 9 oclock at night, depending on their age. So they have a lot of trouble getting to sleep, and there is a tendency fo...

very controversial and many say that children are "doped" which is a chemical alternative to treating the real problem ("Britain" ...

defense mechanisms (Chapter Sixteen). They are difficult in therapy because their psychic structure is so poorly constructed; it ...

the Bush regime as "of the original Trotskyist and Marxist formation", a somewhat surprising observation perhaps in view of the lo...

so because if such fears and problems are dealt with quickly, before they become firmly imbedded in a patients mind, they can be m...

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

Although the subject of eating disorders are quite well publicized when it comes to girls and women being affected, a little appre...

difficulty in viewing the behavior of people who suffer from mental disorder, such as bipolar, in terms of illness. Susan Crosby, ...

EMDR therapists assert that the treatment is suitable for a wide range of disorders; that it is much quicker than other forms of...

and complex. Coots (1998) notes research results have indicated that in order for at-risk children to fully benefit from af...

is a distinct difference between relatively simple shyness and the disorder. According to a report from the Ascribe Higher Educati...

ever been exposed to. As he grows to realize it is his family displaying the dysfunctional behavior and not that of his friends, ...

that if left unchecked, the latter can develop into the former. The extent to which children with problems tend to "slip through t...

with ADHD and CD have the same psychophysiological response patterns in studies which are similar to those with antisocial persona...

for the disorder. On medication now, he says that he is more focused than at any other time of his life. He always wanted to do ...