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What is P300 and What Does it Do?

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Psychiatric disorders have a great many parameters, such as personal, social, genetic, biochemical aspects. Starting from the middle of the past century, scientists have benefited from different technological developments in revealing the relationship between the structural status of the brain and mood disorders. EEG (Electroencephalography) is one of the methods that are frequently used to analyze the relationships that these disorders establish with electro-physiological variables.

The Start of Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s is a disorder that generally occurs at increased ages. Deteriorations occur in the attention and memory skills during the course of the disorder. Of course, there is a significant point to pay attention on while diagnosing Alzheimer’s.

What is Alzheimer’s?

Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia. Dementia is a disorder that is publicly known as dotage. Dementia has more than sixty reasons. The most common one is the Alzheimer’s disorder, as known. It is one of the most important disorders of today’s world, and it’s increasing in prevalence as the society grows old.

Anxiety Crisis

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There are cases where anxiety is quite severe.  These situations are named anxiety crisis or attacks by the public. When considered from a medical perspective, the attack that is known the most among anxiety attacks is the panic attack.  While other attacks are relatively more tolerable, panic attacks create serious problems.

Social Anxiety Disorder

Stop everything you are doing, close your eyes, and think: you are walking towards a platform in a conference hall. Everyone’s looking at you in a crowded hall, where a great many academicians, your friends and students are present, as you are about the present your researches on a field you have been very successful at and you’ve been conducting studies for years. You go up there, and once you take a look at yourself, you realize that you are naked. Wouldn’t you run away from that place in shame? This short scenario does a good job in telling what people with social phobia experience.

What is Anxiety?

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Anxiety is one of the most important functions of our mental world. It is a clear expression that our brain is in need of something. Specific requirements, such as hunger, thirst, sexual needs, are felt through the presence of anxiety. We can say that anxiety is an absolute must for human life. It is a functional mechanism from an evolutionary perspective. So, how come anxiety becomes a disorder despite having such a vital importance in human life? When anxiety is acute and lasts for a long period of time and gets out of control, this situation signifies the anxiety disorder.