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- Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents - Anxiety Disorders in children and adolescents including generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias and posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Speech and Language Disorders - The Kaufman Children's Center for Speech and Language Disorders, Inc. provides early intervention to children with communication disorders including central auditory processing disorders, autism, Asperger's, receptive and expressive language disorders, apraxia, and articulation difficulties. General overview of these disorders, symptoms and even early signs for parents of infants as well. (See index in the left columm of the web site.)
- National Centre for Eating Disorders - Treatment for eating disorders and disordered eating. National network of counselors plus telephone treatment options. Offers assessment by a counselor and an area for "ask an expert" for a fee. Information on eating disorders, training, counseling program, booking sessions on-line, how to help, eating disorders in men, body image, the centre, and how to contact. Surrey, UK.
- Psychological Disorders in Children - Defining how disorders are diagnosed by psychologists in childhood and adolescence. Links to information on oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, ADHD, and separation anxiety disorder.
- Conduct Disorder versus Oppositional Defiant Disorder - Explanation for parents of the similarities and differences of two adolescent behavior disorders.
- NINDS: Cephalic Disorders - Fact Sheet provided by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Brief overview of conditions and current research.
- Cephalic Disorders - Information page compiled by NINDS, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
- The Eating Disorder Unit: Other Eating Disorders - Descriptions of less common eating disorders including Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), Pica, Night Eating Syndrome and Sleep Eating Disorder (SED-NOS). From the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, University of London.
- Genetic Disorders: The Links to Diet - Explores the role of diet in birth defects and genetic disorders. Includes nutritional links to disorders such as Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, homocystinuria, and cystic fibrosis.
- Oppressed Group: Schizoid A Personality Not a Disorder - Expresses the author's view that the schizoid personality is not a disorder but rather a style and that mental health professionals use the term "disorder" as an oppression tool.
Wikipedia Articles
- Trinucleotide repeat disorders - Trinucleotide repeat disorders (also known as trinucleotide repeat expansion disorders, triplet repeat expansion disorders or codon reiteration disorders) are due to stretches of DNA in a gene that contain the same trinucleotide sequence repeated many times. These repeats are a subset of unstable microsatellite repeats that occur throughout all genomic sequences.
- Feminist perspectives on eating disorders - Feminist perspectives on eating disorders reveal that there are societal links between the etiology of eating disorders and the oppression of women. Feminists do not necessarily believe that society is the sole cause of an eating disorder, but that societal influences definitely play a role in these addictions (the craving to control one’s body and the euphoria established through weight loss or controlled ...
- Eating Disorders Association - The Eating Disorders Association, known as beat since February 2007, is the major British medical charity in the area of eating disorders. It is dedicated to helping people with anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating disorder and other eating disorders, and providing information to the public about these conditions.
- International Society for Affective Disorders - The International Society for Affective Disorders (ISAD) exists to promote research into the affective disorders through all relevant scientific disciplines, including genetics, neuroscience and the social and behavioural sciences.
- Provincial Resource Program for Autism and Related Disorders - Provincial Resource Program for Autism and Related Disorders is a specialized program within School District 37 Delta. The program is funded by the Ministry of Education to serve the needs of school age students with profound developmental disorders or disabilities that limit their ability to participate in a regular school environment.