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Physiology is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical and physical functions in a living system.
Jean Piaget was born in 1896 at Neuchatel, Switzerland and died in 1980 at Geneva, Switzerland. He was a Swiss born biologist but because of his mother's poor mental health, Piaget became interested in psychopathology.
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive development refers to the perspective proposed by Jean Piaget (1896 to 1980) that thinking develops in a sequence of stages. Piaget believed that children naturally try to make sense of their world, both the physical and social world from infancy, adolescence and beyond.
Pica refers to a form of eating disorder in which the infant or toddler persists in eating inedible, non-nutritive substances, such as dirt or feces, commonly associated with mental retardation.
Deutsch: Pick-Krankheit / Español: Enfermedad de Pick / Português: Doença de Pick / Français: Maladie de Pick / Italiano: Malattia di Pick
Pick’s disease refers to rare neurological disorder that results in Pre-senile Dementia.