The foregoing process studies of schizophrenia, mania, depression, heroin and alcohol addictions, mental retardation and sociopathy are only part of the immense topic of extreme states. Missing from the present study are investigations of senile psychoses, extreme states in children and comatose phenomena near death.The client of the city often appears to be the identiried [...]

Another effect the virus has on the brain is to cause motor problems. People begin to drop things, their handwriting deteriorates, their hands tremble. Their legs get weak, they have difficulty walking, and they lose their balance easily. Lisa’s husband, whose hobby was carving wood ducks, “couldn’t get the feathers right any more,” Lisa said. [...]

If your child has staring spells or absence seizures—instances where he or she briefly stops and stares, perhaps with some smacking of his lips, picking at his clothes, or confusion—the chances are that he or she has not had just a single episode. These brief spells are usually diagnosed only after many have occurred. Since [...]