Examines the symptoms, causes, and effects of child abuse and stress disorder, including acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and physical, mental, and sexual child abuse, and discusses treatment options.
Examines the symptoms, causes, and effects of eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating, and others, and looks at treatment options and future directions.
Examines the symptoms, causes, and effects of personality disorders, including paranoid and schizotype, impulsive, and anxious disorders, and looks at treatment options and future directions.
Offers an overview of schizophrenia, discussing the disorder's symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment options, and impact on the lives of patients and their loved ones.
An overview of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder that discusses its symptoms, causes, and treatment options, as well as the controversy over certain treatment options.
Examines the symptoms, causes, and effects of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder, separation anxiety, phobias, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder, and looks at available treatments and the outlook for the future.
Examines the symptoms, causes, and effects of addiction to nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, and inhalants, as well as non-drug addictions to food, sex, and gambling, and looks at treatment options and recovery.
Provides information about Tourette's syndrome, discussing symptoms, prevalence, causes, medical treatments, behavioral therapies, psychiatric disorders associated with it, and coping strategies for individuals with Tourette's and their family members.
An overview of autism, a developmental disorder, that discusses its history of diagnosis, symptoms, possible causes, and treatment options, as well as the debate over whether or not autism is an epidemic.
