cognitive behavioral therapy

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can mimic some other conditions in adults, so let’s take a closer look at the specific symptoms and other things to know.

Rett syndrome is a severe genetic disorder that affects the way the brain develops, causing progressive disability of the muscles. It almost exclusively affects females and occurs in an estimated 1 in 12,000 girls born each year. Due to its rarity, the condition may be challenging to identify early on in a child’s life, as […]

Most of us are familiar with amnesia, which is generally defined as memory loss, and its causes, from brain injury to alcoholism to dementia to mental health trauma (such as post-traumatic stress disorder). But there’s much less knowledge when it comes to the various treatment options available to people suffering from significant memory loss. The […]

Body focused repetitive behaviors (or BFRB’s) in children describe a group of frequently repeated behaviors that injure the body but are not classified as self-harm behaviors. They are clustered together with other OCD behaviors. The disorder develops in early puberty and initially affects both sexes equally. In adulthood, more females are afflicted. With time the […]

We’ve all experienced a moment of panic before, however, when panic becomes a chronic and alarming response to everyday life, you may require professional help to overcome anxiety and panic attacks. Here are six realities of living with panic attacks and panic disorder…

A study care of the University of California suggests that babies as young as 1 ½-years-old are sensitive to the perspectives of others and can even guess what other people are going to do before they do it. The report published on LiveScience.com challenged the earlier reasoning that children aren’t aware of the perspectives of […]