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ADHD: Symptoms, Causes, Therapy

ADHD: Brief overview Symptoms: Attention and concentration deficits, hyperactivity (marked restlessness) and impulsivity. Depending on the severity, also dreaminess. Causes and risk factors: Probably predominantly genetic, but unfavorable environmental influences as triggers. Therapy: Behavioral therapy, possibly in combination with medication (e.g. methylphenidate, atomoxetine). Training of parents. Effect of ADHD: Learning or occupational difficulties, behavioral problems, … ADHD: Symptoms, Causes, Therapy

Diabetes Nutrition: What to Pay Attention to

What should you eat if you have diabetes? In the metabolic disease diabetes mellitus, the body lacks the hormone insulin or its effect is reduced. As a result, there is a risk that the blood sugar level in the blood rises too high. To prevent this, the diet of people with diabetes plays an important … Diabetes Nutrition: What to Pay Attention to

Excitation Level: Function, Tasks, Role & Diseases

Arousal level corresponds to the activation level of the central nervous system (CNS) and is associated with attention, alertness, and responsiveness. An intermediate level of arousal is considered the basis of highest performance. When negative arousal persists, distress and sometimes phenomena such as burnout syndrome develop. What is the arousal level? Arousal level corresponds to … Excitation Level: Function, Tasks, Role & Diseases

Eustress: Function, Tasks, Role & Diseases

The term eustress stands for “positive stress,” while dysstress means “negative stress.” Both terms are often mentioned in the context of stress management. Stress is not always harmful to the human organism, but can also register positive effects. What is eustress? The term eustress stands for “positive stress”, while dysstress means “negative stress”. Both terms … Eustress: Function, Tasks, Role & Diseases

Interest: Function, Task & Diseases

An interest is based on cognitively strong involvement in and emotionally positive evaluation of certain activities, objects, or people. Interests interact with attention and are controlled in the brain, primarily by the frontal brain and limbic system. In apathy, there is no longer any interest in the external world. What is interest? Interest controls a … Interest: Function, Task & Diseases

Sensation: Function, Task & Diseases

Sensation is a preliminary stage of perception and corresponds to the primary sensory impression by the neuroanatomical sense organs. All the processing processes, such as mainly the emotional evaluation of the sensory impression, turn sensation into perception in the brain. What is sensation? At the beginning of perception is sensation or sensory perception. The sense … Sensation: Function, Task & Diseases

Perception: Illusions and Disturbances

Since our perception never corresponds one hundred percent with reality, the boundary to perceptual illusions or disorders is fluid. For example, we perceive colors even though light itself is not colored, but only has different wavelengths that are interpreted accordingly by the visual organ and brain; many animals, for example, perceive colors differently than humans. … Perception: Illusions and Disturbances

Perception: What is it Anyway?

“Wara neman” – for the ancient Germanic peoples, this meant paying attention to something. From this moment until “perceiving”, i.e. grasping how something is, many complex processes take place in the body in which numerous structures are involved. In order to survive, the organism has to find its way in its environment – an environment … Perception: What is it Anyway?

Perception: in the Eye of the Sciences

Once the brain has made sense of what it perceives, it decides in a flash whether action is necessary: A loud honk on the street leads me to jump onto the saving sidewalk, a hiss in the grass leads me to turn toward the source of the noise and avoid being bitten by the snake. … Perception: in the Eye of the Sciences

Perception: Irritant

Perceived information can be divided into groups; correspondingly, the receptors that respond to these stimuli: Mechanoreceptors respond to mechanical stimuli, i.e., pressure, touch, stretch, or vibration. They mediate tactile perception (sense of touch) and, together with the sense of balance in the inner ear, proprioception, i.e., the position and movement of the limbs in space … Perception: Irritant

The Subconscious Mind: How does it Influence Our Decisions?

Any psychologist would confirm that the subconscious plays an important role in major decisions. This insight is not new to most people, because almost everyone knows the somewhat indefinable “gut feeling”, that intuition that is often felt when it comes to important decisions. In the meantime, it has been scientifically proven: Careful consideration is not … The Subconscious Mind: How does it Influence Our Decisions?

Cognition: Function, Tasks, Role & Diseases

Simply put, cognition is the human ability to think. However, this process makes use of various information processing processes, including cognitive abilities such as attention, learning ability, perception, remembering, orientation, creativity, imagination and the like, besides mental processes such as opinions, thoughts, intentions or desires. Emotions have an important influence on thinking. Perception and conception … Cognition: Function, Tasks, Role & Diseases