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Personality disorders are not characterised by specific symptoms or syndromes, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression or panic attacks, but by the exaggerated and rigid presence of certain personality traits

Cervical stenosis consists of a narrowing of the dimensions of the vertebral canal at the height of the neck

Let's talk about gastrointestinal disorders: how many people have experienced stomach pains during moments of particular nervousness or, on the other hand, not realised whether stress or gastric disturbances arose first?

Scabies is a skin disease due to a parasite specific to humans, a small mite (0.4 - 0.3 mm), invisible to the naked eye, called Sarcoptes scabiei variant hominis

Impulse Control Disorders are a recently recognized diagnostic category. Disorders such as pathological gambling, pyromania, kleptomania, and intermittent explosive disorder have only been diagnosed with DSM III (American Psychiatric…

De Quervain syndrome – also known as stenosing tenosynovitis – is an inflammatory process affecting the synovial sheath of the extensor brevis and abductor pollicis longus tendons

Pyelonephritis is an inflammatory disease of the kidney and renal pelvis that can be acute or chronic. The disease is often associated with a more or less extensive infection of the organ parenchyma

The cardiac pacemaker is a tiny small device which, surgically implanted, is capable of correcting heart rhythm disturbances; intervenes when it perceives that the heart is beating too fast, too slow or there is a discontinuous beat

Women suffering from bladder prolapse may complain of various symptoms ranging from a feeling of discomfort in the pelvic area after standing for a long time, to bladder dysfunction such as urinary incontinence or difficulty emptying the…

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease of adulthood, caused by the loss of spinal, bulbar and cortical motor neurons, which leads to paralysis of voluntary muscles up to and including respiratory…