Autism is also called autistic disorder.

Prevention of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is difficult.  This is probably because there are so many suspected causes of the disorder.

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder occurs in one in every 20 children (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1999).  It is more likely to occur in boys.

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is sometimes called ADHD.

Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder characteristic of persistent, overwhelming and uncontrollable changes in:

The American Medical Association declared alcoholism a disease in 1956, which lead to medical treatment instead of incarceration for those overtaken by the affects of alcohol in public.

Most studies show the majority of people who become homeless are without a place to live for only a short period of time.

Marie Balter was a patient at Danvers State Asylum for many years.  Almost all of her life she battled with mental illness.  Her symptoms and illnesses were misdiagnosed by her attending doctors.

If a patient had no family and was admitted to Danvers in the 1940s and 1950s, he or she was almost always used like a guinea pig for various treatments.

In the late 1950s at Danvers Insane Asylum the staff spent most of their time providing medical treatment and basic care.