Despite the fact that Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects up to seven percent of school-age children, the symptoms of this disorder can be easy to misinterpret or overlook. ADHD diagnoses are divided into an inattentive type, a...
According to the DSM-IV-TR (2000) Bipolar disorders affect up to 1.6 percent of the population. There are two categories of bipolar disorders, bipolar I and bipolar II. Previously called manic depression, bipolar I and II are mood disorders and...
MedlinePlus notes that in 2008, about 3.4 million people in the world had human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The virus, which spreads through sexual contact or needle exchange or from mother to...
Menopause is a natural life stage, not an illness or a condition. Natural menopause is defined as the time during which a woman's menstrual periods have stopped for 12 consecutive months. Surgical menopause involves removal of the ovaries,...
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a deficit in attention, hyperactivity and impulsivity that is generally first diagnosed in children during elementary school. According some ADHD researchers, however, parents often retrospectively...
Merck Manuals, an online medical library, reports that multiple myeloma is a form of cancer in which plasma cells become cancerous. Plasma cells are a relatively rare type of blood cell, making up less than 1 percent of total blood cells. However,...
The National Cancer Institute estimates prostate cancer will kill 32,050 men in the United States in 2010. Prostate cancer can develop from the cells that surround the prostate gland, or from the glandular tissue itself. As the cancer progresses,...
Also called manic depression, bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that is defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or the DSM. For a patient to be diagnosed with one of the four types of bipolar disorder, she must...
Cerebral palsy, or CP, is a group of chronic movement or posture disorders. This condition is not caused by problems with the muscle, but with the brain's ability to control the body. According to United Cerebral Palsy Research and Educational...
Diabetes mellitus is a disease characterized by a defect in the body's ability to make or utilize insulin, resulting in high blood glucose levels in the blood. In the United States, 23.6 million children and adults have diabetes and 1.6 million...
Conduct disorder is a diagnosis given to children (under the age of 18) who exhibit serious behavioral problems. According to the DSM-IV-TR (2000) conduct disorders affects between one percent and ten percent of the population, with boys being...
In America, coronary artery disease is the main cause of disease and death. The coronary arteries supply blood and oxygen to the heart. In coronary artery disease, these blood vessels are atherosclerotic, or narrow and stiff. This is because there...
When a patient has clinical depression, she has symptoms like sadness and anger that interfere in her life. Not all forms of depression are the same: each type of depression has different diagnostic criteria, such as the duration and number of...
Babies with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) have a marked growth deficiency. If the height and/or weight of a newborn is at or below the tenth percentile, that could be an indicator of fetal alcohol syndrome. These measurements can also be evaluated...
Fibromyalgia is a disorder that causes chronic pain in the muscles and tendons all over the body. The cause of fibromyalgia is unknown; however, researchers hypothesize there is a disruption in the perception of pain. The disorder affects more...
Depression affects people of all ages and backgrounds. The World Health Organization (WHO) notes that depression affects 121 million people worldwide. Clinical depression is diagnosed by looking at the intensity of the emotions you are...
According to the American Psychiatric Association, ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is a neurobiological condition characterized by chronic symptoms lasting more than 6 months that can cause significant difficulties in academic or...
In psychology, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or NPD, is designated as a personality disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which is the the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic classification...
The primary difference between insulin resistance and pre-diabetes is that the insulin resistance causes pre-diabetes. Insulin resistance is a metabolic disorder that causes an increase in blood glucose levels. Pre-diabetes is a newly named...
In 1994, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, or RSD, was renamed complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS). It usually develops after tissue trauma---for example, a broken wrist, surgery, heart attack or stroke---according to "Harrison's Principles...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, often referred to as ADHD, is a disorder in which children have difficulty regulating and controlling their behavior. It often manifests itself as difficulty sustaining attention and concentration,...
The symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder manifest in three ways. Children with ADHD are often hyperactive, inattentive and impulsive. In school-aged children, the hallmarks of hyperactive behavior include an inability to sit still...
When a person close to you, such as your husband, succumbs to a drug addiction, the consequences can be significant. Your husband may lose his job, be unable to parent your children, pull away from your relationship and begin spending increasing...
Attention-deficit disorder, or ADD, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, are learning disabilities that have a significant impact on a student's ability to learn and his teacher's ability to manage a classroom. According to a...
According to the National Fibromyalgia Association, fibromyalgia is one of the most common chronic pain conditions. Fibromyalgia affects an estimated 10 million people of all ethnic groups in the United States. Most sufferers---75 to 90 percent --...
The primary differences between drug abuse and drug dependence revolve around withdrawal and tolerance. Other distinctions exist as well. Most drug assessments such as the CAGE and the AA 20 assess whether someone has a problem with drugs or...
The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) reports that approximately 1.1 million American adults suffer from schizophrenia in any one year, affecting men and women in equal numbers. Schizophrenia is a severe and chronic brain disorder...
According to MedlinePlus, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), is characterized by symptoms such as a child not sitting still, acting without thinking and not finishing things they started. If these behaviors last for more than six...
Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain disorder that affects approximately 2 percent of the general population in the United States. Women are affected 10 times more frequently than men, but individuals of both genders and all ages, including children and...
Fibromyalgia, FM, is a disorder of tactile allodynia and come-and-go pains, with symptoms varying greatly from day to day. Learn about fibromyalgia, including treatments and symptoms, in this health video.
Chronic fatigue syndrome covers a group of poorly understood diseases of the central nervous system leading to fatigue. Learn about chronic fatigue syndrome, including treatments and symptoms, in this health video.
