Yahoo answers: What are some psych disorders that are common but not talked about?
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I am doing a small research paper for AP Psych and I want to do it on a common disorder that doesn't get a lot of press, so to say. So basically nothing like Schizophrenia but not something lie Pica that is very rare. any ideas?
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What about personality disorders? If the research paper does not have to be about an Axis 1 disorder...I think a personality disorder would be great to do because they are often forgotten about....
Latest news about pica diagnosis
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Postcard from Perth: Fringe World week two
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Book Review – Jimmy, Me and Autism by Sarah Pounder
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created brain-reading techniques to use neural representations of social thoughts to predict autism diagnoses with 97 percent accuracy. This establishes the first biologically based diagnostic tool …more.
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Writer Who Accidentally Got High Blames Cannabis Candy Maker
GFarmaLabsGale Curcio, a freelance writer in Alexandria, Virginia, inadvertently took a bite of a cannabis-infused candy bar and got really dizzy. Who is to blame for this mishap? A. Curcio's 26-year-old son, who left the candy bar on the kitchen counter.
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Destructive Behavior in Cats
When cats scratch or lick the wrong things and do not respond to discouragement, they are diagnosed as having a destructive behavior problem. Not all destructive behavior is the same, however. When a cat scratches on the wrong things but does not have
Source: http://www.pawnation.com/2014/11/13/destructive-behavior-in-cats/
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http://www.minddisorders.com/Ob-Ps/Pica.html
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/mental-health-pica
http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/p/pica/intro.htm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001538.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/pica/overview.html