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Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety is a complex combination of emotions that most people normally experience just before a stressful event or after a traumatic loss. Investigations into the causes of anxiety show that it is due to a feeling of fear. This feeling of fear brings about the combination of other feelings such as apprehension, worry, and uneasiness, which eventually leads to stress. Sometimes it is found in certain individuals, anxiety can develop spontaneously without any apparent cause. As a result of this, the individual’s daily activity gets affected. At this point anxiety becomes a disorder and needs to be treated.
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Know your Nervous system

The Nervous system is a complex system through which our body is able to communicate internal as well as external information to its epicenter, the brain. The Nevous system can be broken down into two basic parts, the first being the Central Nervous System, known as CNS, and the second part being the Peripheral Nervous System. The CNS consists of the brain and spinal cord. The Peripheral nervous system consists of all the nerves of the body, which lie outside the brain and spinal cord. These being all the nerves which carry messages to and fro from all over to our body to the CNS.
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Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive chronicle necrological disorder named after dr. James Parkinson, a London physician who first described the syndrome in the year 1871.Parkinson’s Disease effects a small area of cells in the substantia nigra also known as the mid brain region. The disease gradually degenerates the cells causing the reduction of a vital chemical compound known as “dopamine”. As a result of this, the patients with Parkinson’s have the characterized symptoms of tremors, difficultly with walking, movement, speech and coordination.
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Depression

Depression, an illness that involves both the well being of the mental as well as physical state of a person. It is often clinically called as a depressive disorder which effects the way in which one things and deifiers situations around them. Depression often disrupts the normal life of a person, with an overall change in attitude and behavior both internally and externally. Research has shown that on the whole suicides are commoner among men. Three times as many men as women committed suicide. On the other hand, suicide attempts are commoner among women than among men…
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