Sentences with phrase «considered prodromal»

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But Robert Heinssen, who is chief of the Adult Treatment and Preventive Intervention Research Branch at the NIMH and who led the study, claims that prodromal symptoms, when considered in the context of a full medical history, can produce a much more accurate prediction.

Prodromal comes from the Greek word meaning precursor, and even though it only results in minimal cervical dilation, it's considered an early stage of true labor — not false labor (Source).

In considering these findings, the authors suggest that «persistent childhood insomnia may represent subclinical, prodromal precursors of anxiety, perhaps reflecting the beginning of the presleep cognitive arousal and hypervigilance that can lengthen sleep onset and disrupt deep sleep and that also have been theorized to underlie the development of anxiety» (Armstrong et al. 2014, p. 907).