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Revision as of 08:15, 13 January 2009
- See also changes related to Schizophrenia, or pages that link to Schizophrenia or to this page or whose text contains "Schizophrenia".
Parent topics
- Neuroscience [r]: The study of nervous systems and their components. [e]
- Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
- Psychiatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. [e]
- Psychosis [r]: A brain disorder characterized by severely distorted sensory perception. [e]
Subtopics
- Delusion [r]: A belief with no basis in reality, or shared with a person's culture, that persists despite evidence to the contrary. [e]
- Hallucination [r]: Perception of objects, sounds, or sensations having no demonstrable reality, usually arising from a disorder of the nervous system or in response to certain drugs. [e]
- Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. [e]
- Cerebral cortex [r]: External tissue layer within the vertebrate brain, ensheathed by the pia mater; home to the nerve cell bodies; important in learning and dementia. [e]
- Cortical thickness [r]: The combined thickness of the cerebral cortex layers. [e]
- Cortical connectivity [r]: The degree to which different subunits of the cerebral cortex are linked to each other via nerve fibres. [e]
- Brain development [r]: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons, glia and blood vessels. [e]
- Brain evolution [r]: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. [e]
- Brain disorder [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Brain asymmetry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Brain ventricle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Synapse [r]: Contact point between neurons and other cells, crucial for nerve signalling [e]
- Synaptic pruning [r]: The usage-controlled loss of connections between nerve cells during brain development. [e]
- Neurotransmitter [r]: A class of chemicals which relay, amplify or modulate electrical signals between a neuron and other cells in the nervous system. [e]
- Dopamine [r]: A monoamine neurotransmitter formed in the brain by the decarboxylation of dopa and essential to the normal functioning of the central nervous system. [e]
- GABA [r]: (GABA, or γ-aminobutyrate), the most common inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. [e]
- Lipid metabolism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Genomic imprinting [r]: A genetic phenomenon by which certain genes are expressed in a parent-of-origin-specific manner. [e]
- Thalamus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Corpus callosum [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Basal ganglia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cerebellum [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Working memory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Theory of mind [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Leucotomy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Electroconvulsive therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Antipsychotics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tranquilizer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chlorpromazine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cocaine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Autism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dementia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Depression [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dyslexia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mental illness [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [r]: Add brief definition or description