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  2. Diseases of affluence - Wikipedia

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    Other risk factors include lack of physical activity, genetic predisposition, being over 45 years old, tobacco use, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. [16] In United States, the prevalence of obesity was 39.8% in adults and 18.5% in children and adolescents in 2015–2016. [ 25 ]

  3. Glossary of psychiatry - Wikipedia

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    In children, these limitations will cause a child to learn and develop more slowly than a typical child. Children with intellectual disability may take longer to learn to speak, walk, and take care of their personal needs such as dressing or eating. They are likely to have trouble learning in school. They will learn, but it will take them longer.

  4. Social deprivation - Wikipedia

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    Social deprivation is the reduction or prevention of culturally normal interaction between an individual and the rest of society. This social deprivation is included in a broad network of correlated factors that contribute to social exclusion; these factors include mental illness, poverty, poor education, and low socioeconomic status, norms and values.

  5. Peer pressure - Wikipedia

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    The last norm defined by the study is called "peer pressure" by the authors, and is used to describe direct encouragement or pressure by a person's peers to engage in sexual behavior. The review found that indirect norms (descriptive and injunctive) had a stronger effect on a person's decision to engage in sexual behavior than direct peer pressure.

  6. Depression in childhood and adolescence - Wikipedia

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    Children who are under stress, experiencing loss or grief, or have other underlying disorders are at a higher risk for depression. Childhood depression is often comorbid with mental disorders outside of other mood disorders, most commonly anxiety disorder and conduct disorder. Highlighting the pivotal role of adolescence and young adulthood ...

  7. Psychological stress - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, stress is a feeling of emotional strain and pressure. [1] Stress is a form of psychological and mental discomfort. Small amounts of stress may be beneficial, as it can improve athletic performance, motivation and reaction to the environment.

  8. Pressure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Pressure of speech mainly happens in the bipolar disorders, during the hypomanic and manic episodes. [3] [1] It also happens because of acute or chronic over-stress in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). [4] [5] Thought disorders' symptoms like flight of ideas can induce pressured speech, with some degrees of circumstantiality or tangential ...

  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...