Hipsters may be dyeing streaks into their hair, but for some people, that distinctive “skunk stripe” happens naturally.

Main character syndrome is the perception that your life is a story or a movie where you’re the central character. A term that was born on social media, it’s not a true syndrome or mental disorder.

Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder that involves recurrent involuntary tics, which are repeated, involuntary physical movements or sounds. The exact cause is unknown. Symptoms of Tourette ...

When you eat a healthy meal, you expect your body to reap the benefits of the vitamins and minerals. But a condition called malabsorption syndrome means your body isn’t able to take in many of the ...

Metabolic syndrome is a disorder of energy use and storage. This syndrome is characterized by central obesity, dyslipidaemia, raised blood pressure and high blood sugar levels. Patients with metabolic ...

EXPERIMENTS on rats show that if the organism is severely damaged by acute non-specific nocuous agents such as exposure to cold, surgical injury, production of spinal shock (transcision of the cord), ...

General adaptation syndrome (GAS) describes the three-stage process your body goes through when under stress: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. Short-term stress during the alarm stage isn’t harmful ...