Mental Health Disorders
- Treatment of mental disorders broad article on treatments frequently mentioning brain dysfunction.
- Acalculia (calculation difficulties) A decrease in cognitive capacity for calculation that results from damage to the brain.
- CCK-4 a compound that reliably causes severe anxiety symptoms when administered to humans in a dose of as little as 50μg, and is commonly used in scientific research to induce panic attacks
- Thalamocortical radiations fibers between the thalamus and the cerebral cortex. Thalamocortical dysrhythmia is a term associated with spontaneously reoccurring low frequency spike-and-wave activity in the thalamus, which causes symptoms normally associated with impulse control disorders such as obsessive compulsive disorder, Parkinson's disease, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and other forms of chronic psychosis
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