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…Narcolepsy Daniel Duthiers Mrs. Twining Period 3 Pre IB Psychology INTRODUCTION TO NARCOLEPSY Contrary to popular belief narcolepsy is not a psychological disorder. Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that causes sleep…

…Hannah B. Webb Psychology 1010 April 12, 2002 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Imagine living in a fast moving kaleidoscope, where sounds, images, and thoughts are constantly shifting. Feeling easily bored, yet helpless to keep your…

…ADD refers to a family of related chronic neurological disorders that interfere with an individual’s capacity to relate activity level (hyperactivity), inhibit behavior (impulsivity), and attends to tasks (inattention) in developmentally appropriate ways…

…Why Drugs shouldn’t be in the treatment of Children with ADHD The concept of behavior disorders such as Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are complex and highly misunderstood disorders. Since these disorders are misunderstood it has…

…than the way it is in another. Speech disorders, both functional and organic, at the handicap level, affect about 22 million persons in the United States, according to U.S. Public Health Service estimates. Approximately 40% are due to hearing loss…

…A Successful Life Dr. Temple Grandin has a disorder known as autism. What this means is that words are translated into pictures in her mind. This disorder has made life into a struggle for her because she is not able to understand words very easily…

…Daniel Macomber Mrs. Huffer ENC 1102-40037 July 10, 2000 The Obsessive Compulsive Disorder of the Narrator in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is defined as “an anxiety disorder in which a person…

…Achondroplasia Achondroplasia is a genetic disorder that affects the growth of the bone. Achondroplasia is evident at birth. It affects about every 25,000 births and all races and sexes. People with this disorder have arms and legs that are very…

…’s book Anxiety Disorders and D. Barlow’s Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders (3rd Ed). While doing these readings with Dr. Spangler I found that, of all the disorders in psychology, I was particularly interested in anxiety disorders…

…Tourettes Syndrome What Is Tourette's Syndrome? TS is an inherited disorder characterized by multiple involuntary movements and uncontrollable vocalizations call tics. Tics come and go over years. Tics are sounds of movements that are repeated over…