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Kaspar the Friendly Robot Helps Autistic Kids

STEVENAGE, England -- Eden Sawczenko used to recoil when other little girls held her hand and turned stiff when they hugged her. This year, the 4-year-old autistic girl began playing with a robot that teaches about emotions and physical contact -- and now she hugs everyone. Alastair Grant, AP Eden Sawczenko...

Opinion: The Rush to Diagnose Charlie Sheen

Many articles and blog posts have speculated about Charlie Sheen's recent bizarre behavior, and various possible diagnoses have been mentioned. People want to understand him -- what's wrong with him, why he's behaving this way and what can be done to help him. Although mental health clinicians might seem to be the perfect...

Meet the Woman Who Eats Couch Cushions

Compulsions drive people to do very strange and unusual things. But eating couch cushions? That may very well be the strangest yet. Adele, a 30-year-old woman from Bradenton, Fla., recently came forward on a TV show about her bizarre taste for foam materials. The woman is featured on the TLC program "My Strange...

Scientists Study Woman With No Fears

(Dec. 19) -- Is there anything you're not afraid of? Imagine what it must be like to never experience fear of any kind. A woman with a rare genetic disorder, Urbach-Wiethe disease, isn't frightened by anything – haunted houses, spiders, snakes, movie monsters, death threats, being attacked or robbed, the Live...

Study: Playing Tetris Can Help Reduce Flashbacks

LONDON (Nov. 11) -- Picture the scene: You're lying in a hospital bed after being pulled out of a terrifying car crash. The doctors haven't found any physical injuries, but before you're allowed to leave, they hand you a Game Boy and insist you play Tetris for 10 minutes. That might sound a little unreasonable (you're...

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05/31/12 LTD Announces New Speech Therapy App Designed for... Source: PRWeb Seattle, WA (PRWEB) May 31, 2012 LTD's newest app, Tell A Story With Tommy: Consequences , an educational speech therapy app for children with Autism, provides engaging and entertaining visual examples of the consequences of the choices children make.
05/31/12 Prosopagnosia: What It's Like to Be Face Blind Source: AOL Healthy Living I'm at a coffee shop, and a woman I know comes up, says hello and we begin to exchange pleasantries.
05/31/12 NT-MDT enters project for the early detection of... Source: News-Medical.Net NT-MDT S&L (Ireland) is working in collaboration with the University of Limerick (UL) and a number of other Universities across Europe to develop an instrument, which will be capable of screening patients cells for Alzheimer's disease.
05/31/12 Research and Markets: Global Technical Textiles... Source: Allegheny Energy Inc DUBLIN--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Dublin - Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/x3t92c/global_technical_t ) has announced the addition of Textiles Intelligence's new report "Global Technical Textiles Business Update, 1st quarter 2012" to their offering.
05/31/12 Analysis: Greeks count mental health cost of a country... Source: Reuters Behind every suicide in crisis-stricken countries such as Greece there are up to 20 more people desperate enough to have tried to end their own lives.

Background on abnormal psychology

Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as precipitating a mental disorder.

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