What is Anorexia Nervosa? Anorexia nervosa, also known as anorexia is a serious life threatening disorder, characterized by an intense fear of gaining weight. Such disorders are dangerous yet treatable. Therefore, it is important to get familiar with eating disorder’s information and education so that awareness can lead to prevention and early diagnosis and …
When talking about this disoder, most people think of dyslexia as a condition of seeing letters and words backwards, like seeing “b” as “d” and vice versa, or seeing or writing “saw” as “was”. So how do you define Dyslexia? Dyslexia is a “specific learning disorder”, with a pattern of learning difficulties characterized by …
Understanding Dyslexia and its impact on memory: Dyslexia is a learning disorder that affect a child’s reading, speaking, communication and everyday life. According to numerous studies, dyslexia can actually affect our working memory. Before we can discuss further about dyslexia we first need to look at different types of memories we have. short-term memory …
Schizophrenia is a psychotic (where a person can’t differentiate between imagination and reality) mental health disorder which affects a person’s speech, thinking and behavior. It affects how a person perceives their environment and express their feeling and emotions. The symptoms usually occur in late adolescence or early adulthood. People with schizophrenia can be treated …
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)? Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as the name suggests is a group of disorders, characterized by difficulty in social communication and restricted and repetitive patterns of interest, behaviors and activities. Autism Spectrum Disorder encompases disorders previously referred to as early infantile autism, Kanner’s autism, childhood autism, high-functioning autism, atypical …
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