symptoms

Part 1: Pervasive Development Disorders (PPDs) – What’s That?

The term “pervasive development disorders,” also called PDDs, refers to a group of conditions that involve delays in the development of many basic skills, most notably the ability to socialize with others, to communicate, and to use imagination. Children with these conditions often are confused in their thinking and generally have problems understanding the world…

What? What!!! Why does everything look gray when you feel blue?

Regardless of culture, language, era, or individual artist, the arts consistently depict depression using darkness. Scientific findings now lend empirical support to this representation of depression that everything looks gray when you feel blue.  Researchers at the University of Freiburg in Germany showed previously that people with depression have difficulty detecting black-and-white contrast differences These…