To me this seemed horrendous and it would take me a lesson to properly wake up and be able to concentrate. Sleep deprivation can be detrimental to academic and social achievement as it can lead to i.

For many years dyslexia was misdiagnosed. Children who were unable to read were considered stupid or less capable than their peers. Fifty years on, and while the cause of dyslexia is still not completely understood, the symptoms are known and help is given to those who have dyslexia. Currently scientists believe that the cause of dyslexia is due to a cerebellar impairment.

Is creativity related to psychopathology? There appears to be a fair amount of anecdotal evidence that suggests that manic depression and clinical depression exist in many creative people, e. poets, artists, performers etc. For instance, Isaac Newton suffered many nervous breakdowns later put down to bi-polar disorder and Beethoven had also suffered with bi-polar disorder. However, is there actually any empirical evidence which can link these traits? Post, F.

The psychological effects of damage to the brain. There are many ways that the brain can be damaged, and many conditions which can be formed from this. The most common way that damage can occur in the brain is due to the person having a stroke, and blood flow being cut off to a part of the brain for a time, causing damage to that part of the brain tissue. Norton and Company, Inc.

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This reasoning seems flawed given the use of dubstep music in the music condition, which is characteristically bass-heavy and like most other music genres, features a wide spectrum of high and low frequencies.

The recent news coverage of the Anders Breivik trial has once again brought to focus the issues and misconceptions related to mental illness. However, these classifications do not necessarily address the nature of each c.