Sentences with phrase «as predisposing»

Next, we discuss dopaminergic and serotonergic mechanisms of trait impulsivity as predisposing vulnerabilities to ASPD and BPD.

Temperament traits may increase risk for developmental psychopathology like Attention - Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and disruptive behaviors during childhood, as well as predisposing to substance abuse during adolescence.

The remaining treatment options are restricted to symptomatic treatment, like careful attention to sleeping habits and nutrition.16 Although health behaviour seems the focus of treatment, very little is known about the beliefs that determine health behaviour in adolescents with CFS, either as predisposing or as maintaining factors.

Our study indicates that this reduced internal health control is one of the psychosocial factors that is involved in the CFS symptom complex, either as a predisposing or maintaining factor or both.

These findings support the idea that anti-smoking parenting practices can be viewed as predisposing processes operating on adolescent smoking behavior through cognitions.

Self - knowledge, general self - appraisal and self - efficacy are considered as predisposing factors.

This approach helps understand the type, intensity, frequency and duration of anxious behaviours as well as predisposing (e.g. family history), precipitating (e.g. school stressors), perpetuating (e.g. avoidance) and protective (e.g. optimistic / hard working child) factors.

The factors identified in this study as predisposing species to high extinction risk due to climate change suggest that conservation actions should focus on species that occupy a small or declining area, have small population size, or have synchronized population fluctuations.

This lecture will review normal physiology of pregnancy and parturition in the bitch and queen, as well as predisposing factors for dystocia.

As well as predisposing to skin problems, a lack of vitamin C seems to make the body more prone to other diseases, infections and conditions.

The combination of meat and whole grains in their puppy formulas has gained favorable feedbacks although chicken fat has been identified as a predisposing factor of bloat in large dog breeds.

The understanding of human nature as a predisposed tabula rasa informs us that survival is the most fundamental human instinct coded in our genetics and that, when imperiled, it is likely to trump everything else.

Those not as predisposed to enlivening workouts might wonder — «well what about if I just relax?

Personally I * virtually never * recommend lipoma removal as it predisposes to other problems and tumors.

Males are no where near as predisposed to UTIs as females, so it could be that the urine is just catching in his hair every single time he urinates, compounding the odor.

In addition to conformation - related skin disorders, the French Bulldog has also been reported as both predisposed to canine atopic dermatitis [40] and also reported as developing clinical signs of atopic dermatitis earlier than other breeds, which may suggest a higher genetic predisposition [41].

Not exact matches

As humans, we're predisposed to doing things the same way.

As an adult, he notes that his mother was sort of right: There are genetic factors that predispose some people for drug addiction.

This trend is going to accelerate with token sales, as folks who are even more predisposed to the pure computer science end of the spectrum end up founding valuable protocols.

As a result, millennials appear far more predisposed toward weighing hard data with objective scrutiny, and placing more relevance on these figures than on soft data findings.

Thus when late moderns come across, say, St. Anselm's famous phrase «fides quaerens intellectum» (faith seeking understanding), they are often predisposed to see it at best as slightly duplicitous, at worst as expressing a somewhat contemptible ambition: the aspiration of an irrational passion (fervent, tender, fierce) to the dignity of a rational conviction (cold, adamantine, calm).

I agree that human beings are predisposed to spiritual or supernatural beliefs, probably as an evolutionary bi-product, fearing the unknown made for greater survival odds.

Claims made for the path of rigorous discipleship do not always carefully distinguish ego needs from the Word of God, Those who take this path are often predisposed to it by a preference for self - denial or asceticism, and this preference can be just as self - centered as gluttony.

As we can see from these two fellas, their minds are predisposed to thinking a certain way, and the bible supports their contradictory attitudes.

Things like this, are a physically inherited brain abnormalacy, that I don't see as a «desease», but it does predispose the family members to become addicted to all kinds of things.

The analysis, as a rule, brings to light certain experiences, conflicts, a sense of inferiority, maladjustment to life, and psychic tension, which are frequently the predisposing causes of excessive drinking.

When Ashbrook and Albright say that reality itself is humanlike, they are claiming that we are predisposed to put a face on external reality, to treat it as if it were a human agent.

It requires a consistent, often painful, examination of conscience with the welfare of others as well as ourselves in mind and the self - discipline not to pursue our own self - interest or pursue pleasure at the expense of others even though our survival instincts predispose us to do just that.

The mental habits of Christendom predispose us to look for one essence of the faith, with a corresponding global political structure as safeguard, whereas world Christianity challenges us to pay attention to the dynamic of power of the gospel and the open - ended character of communities of faith.»

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

I note that the researcher in the article which you cited above was careful to choose Buddhist monks for his study and not just anyone as if he did the latter, there would be the possibility that he would encounter persons like myself whose minds dissociate during intense / deep meditation given that the biology of such persons predisposes them to this:

For anyone who is not already predisposed to believing that the imaginary is real, if his attention is called to the distinction between reality and imagination and he is explicitly reminded that the imaginary is not real, he's not likely to accept claims about imaginary things as truth.

He has an interesting take on original sin, which, from an evolutionary perspective, he suggests, can be seen as a trigger for certain genetic mechanisms predisposing us to selfishness and aggression.

They may be able to choose how to react to that fact, though, just as people who are predisposed to eat too much can try to struggle against that issue.

The existentialist mood of the post-World War II period predisposed these schools to see the problem as one of making the faith relevant to the individual student's needs.

The fact that some drug addicts switch from morphine to alcohol and back, as the supply of one or the other becomes inaccessible, seems to belie the existence of a specific physical predisposing factor.

Some exponents of the biochemical conception of the etiology of alcohol ism, such as R. J. Williams, mentioned earlier, claim that there is a metabolic peculiarity that specifically predisposes certain persons to alcoholism.

No one familiar with the signs and symptoms... can challenge this statement... It is an entirely different matter, however, to believe — as Smith apparently does — that... the alcoholic possesses a metabolic individuality which predisposes to addiction.

Even if there are biochemical or metabolic factors in the underlying causes of alcoholism, it seems unlikely that they would be such as to specifically predispose to alcohol ism.

But when they are allowed to give their opinions as to «soft» matters like whether being beaten as a child predisposed the defendant to beating people as an adult, the focus of proceedings shifts from judgment to explanation.

The important thing is to understand that such passages and exegeses predisposed the Christians to accept the political power as more or less valid.

It can be very easy sometimes to find some reasoning that allows us to do something that we are predisposed to wanting to do, so sometimes a good old fashioned wwjd (as hokey as that sounds) can blow up our thinking.

Hauerwas prefers to identify this as an error of «liberalism» or of the Enlightenment and is not predisposed to refer to his own thought as «post-modernism,» which is Muray's label.

In other words, watching programs with violence did not lead to increases in aggressive behavior either in the sample as a whole or in subgroups predisposed toward acting aggressively.

NATC Single Service Tea «It may come as a surprise to many consumers that the ordinary and familiar teabag — such as those filled with fannings [small pieces of tea that are left over after higher grades of tea are gathered to be sold *]-- may actually fare better in a competition like this than teabags filled with loose leaf tea,» said Lydia Kung, an NATC judge, tea buyer and expert with Eastrise Trading Corp in Monrovia, Calif. «Most tea drinkers are probably predisposed to dismiss the «lowly» teabag in favor of sachets, etc. that come in fancier packaging.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

Dr. William Sears in The Baby Book recommends against soy formula as a first choice for many reasons including that «30 - 50 percent of infants who are allergic to cow's milk protein are also allergic to soy protein,» and that «giving an infant soy at a young age, when intestines are more permeable to allergens, may predispose the child to soy allergies later on, even as an adult.»

In many ways these young dads were positively predisposed towards their impending role as fathers (see box 2 below) but their experiences of antenatal care, together with a high level of involvement from the mother's family and friends, «tended to reinforce a feeling of being marginal to the pregnancy».

Rather it seemed the authors were predisposed to see their actions as problematic, even though discerning questions might have revealed the mothers had good reason for them.

Increasingly, we are learning that our emotional psychology has as physical roots as our bodily health — and how much our experiences as babies and young children, especially, form a foundation that can either be stable and secure, or predispose us to a susceptibility of lifelong difficulties.