When their attention is otherwise engaged, people sometimes fail to notice a salient and fully visible, but unexpected object or event, a phenomenon known as inattentional blindness. Inattentional blindness can be viewed as a byproduct of attentional selection: Our ability to focus attention enables us to ignore irrelevant or distracting information, but it occasionally leads […]
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Codependency is a dysfunctional relationship dynamic where one person assumes the role of “the giver,” sacrificing their own needs and well-being for the sake of the other, “the taker.” The bond in question doesn’t have to be romantic; it can occur just as easily between parent and child, friends, and family members. The term “codependency”
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) refers to a brain injury that is caused by an outside force. TBI can be caused by a forceful bump, blow, or jolt to the head or body, or from an object entering the brain. Not all blows or jolts to the head result in TBI. Head injuries have the
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Whitesburg, Kentucky is a rural community of under 2000 residents. In many circumstances people have both personal and professional connections. Everybody knows each other. Murder is a rare occurrence. Scandalous murder shook this community. On the afternoon of September 19th 2024, the prosecutors say that elected Sheriff Shawn M. Stines walked into the chambers of
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Laci Peterson disappeared in 2002 on Christmas Eve, while eight months pregnant. Her husband of over five years, Scott Peterson, was convicted of her death, it was commuted to a life sentence in 2021. He maintained his innocence. On January 18, 2024, the Los Angeles Innocence Project took Peterson on as a client and filed
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Avoidant personality disorder (AVPD) is characterized by a persistent pattern of social anxiety, heightened sensitivity to rejection, and pervasive feelings of inadequacy, coupled with a deep-rooted longing for meaningful connections with others. Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler first described an avoidant personality type in his 1911 work Dementia Praecox: Or the Group of Schizophrenias. German psychiatrist
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Schizoaffective disorder is among the most frequently misdiagnosed psychiatric disorders in clinical practice. Due to concerns about the reliability and utility of the diagnostic criteria for schizoaffective disorder, some researchers have proposed revisions, while others have suggested altogether removing the diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The term schizoaffective disorder first
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His parties in Hollywood were legendary. His empire immense, his bank account huge. At one time, he was the king of hip hop, one of the early pioneers who took his music and culture and turned it into hundreds of millions of dollars, establishing himself as a true power broker in the world of entertainment.
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A delusion is a fixed false belief based on an inaccurate interpretation of an external reality despite evidence to the contrary. Cultural beliefs also impact the content of delusions. An individual’s cultural beliefs merit consideration before coming to the diagnosis. The belief is not congruent with one’s culture or subculture, and almost everyone else knows
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Madeleine was on holiday with her parents Kate and Gerry McCann, her two-year-old twin siblings, and seven friends and their children. Madeleine’s parents are both physicians. Kate is a general practitioner. She had moved briefly into obstetrics and gynecology, then anesthetics. Gerry qualified in medicine and in 2002 obtained his MD, from Glasgow. Since 2005,
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