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How to Relieve Stress in Your Daily Life
From mantra to yoga. From deep breathing exercises to plain old exercise. Get into your happy place and eliminate stress, before stress on your body and mind eliminates you.
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How Tourette Syndrome Works
You may think you know what Tourette syndrome is, but throw out what you think you know. Tourette's patients are not constantly twitching and belting out obscenities.
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Is Ritalin treatment safe for preschool children?
With the release of the first long-term study of the effects of Ritalin on children aged three to five years, the ADHD debate has gained new steam.
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What are the physical effects of stress?
Some of your physical ailments could be linked to plain old-fashioned stress. Headaches? Backaches? Diarrhea? The flu? Stress does more damage than you think.
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What causes Stockholm syndrome?
Natascha Kampusch on spending eight years in a cell beneath her captor's basement: \My youth was very different. But I was also spared a lot of things -- I did not start smoking or drinking ... [nor] hang out in bad company.""
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What is cyberchondria?
So you're at a family dinner, and your uncle stands up and dramatically announces that he has a brain tumor. How does he know? Because he researched his frequent headaches on the Internet.
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Why are 600 girls in Mexico suffering from collective hysteria?
In November, a mysterious illness began to affect girls at a Roman Catholic boarding school in Chalco, Mexico: collective hysteria. Learn about this psychological disorder and find out why it occurs.
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28 Phobias and Their Definitions
Did you know that ailurophobia is a fear of cats? If you're afraid of it, someone's probably made up a goofy name for your phobia. Read our list of 28 phobias and their definitions.
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How Stress Works
Stress is just around every corner for most of us these days. Reducing it requires you to learn the various types of stress, their different causes and how to deal with them. HowStuffWorks can help -- read our informative and helpful solutions and st
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Understanding Depression
In bed, you toss and turn, unable to get a good night's sleep. You feel anxious and worried. Friends tell you to "pull yourself together,\" but you feel helpless and hopeless. Learn about depression."
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Adler, Alfred (1870β1937), an Austrian psychologist, founder of the school of individual psychology.
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Allport, Gordon W. (1897-1967) was an American psychologist known for his research in human personality.
See more »Baldwin, James Mark
Baldwin, James Mark (1861β1934), a United States psychologist. He specialized in child and social psychology.
See more »Behavior, Human
Behavior, Human, the reaction, or response, of a person to a given situation. Some kinds of behavior are inborn, or native βfor example, the reflex of swallowing or grasping.
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Behaviorism, a theory that limits psychological investigation to objective events.
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Binet, Alfred (1857β1911), a French experimental psychologist. The Binet-Simon Scale of Intelligence (1905, revised 1908 and 1911), by Binet and Theodore Simon, was the first successful standardized intelligence test.
See more »Binswanger, Ludwig
Binswanger, Ludwig (1881-1966), a Swiss psychiatrist, sought to understand people as total human beings.
See more »Burt, Cyril
Burt, Cyril (1883-1971), a British psychologist, made important contributions in the areas of statistical analysis, intelligence testing, and juvenile delinquency.
See more »Carr, Harvey
Carr, Harvey (1873-1954), an American psychologist and university administrator, had a profound influence in the field of American psychology.
See more »Catalepsy
Catalepsy, an abnormal condition in which the body and limbs are stiffened, but movable, and stay in whatever position they are placed.
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