Sentences with phrase «diagnostic categories»

It will encompass multiple levels of analysis, from genes to neural circuits to behaviors — cutting across traditional diagnostic categories.

The specific diagnostic categories selected were based on prevalence of diagnoses assigned to children with disruptive behavior problems.

Rather than reliance upon broad diagnostic categories, this constitutes an understanding of the main factors responsible for a clinical presentation, and their interplay.

Since then, increasing evidence has emerged of overlap among the traditional diagnostic categories.

In addition, although we used a validated method to define diagnostic categories for both self - respondents and respondents represented by a proxy, the proportion of the HRS sample represented by a proxy declined significantly between 2000 and 2012 (from 12.5 % to 8.2 % unweighted), likely due in part to a change in HRS field procedures between these 2 waves.

Helena Kraemer, a biostatistician at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who was responsible for field trials of diagnostic categories proposed for DSM - 5, says that Insel is right that the NIMH's new program, called Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) is «the direction we have to go.»

«One of the things that go along with attempts to make a new drug is the attempt to make a new diagnostic category of illness,» Fishman of McGill University says.

In fact, we can surmise that Levine must use diagnostic categories to some extent.

When we clump children together into a single diagnostic category based on test scores, we not only fail to address what might be causing the dyslexia, but we also ignore variability in performance that limits our ability to identify individual differences.

Bipolar disorder (previously known as Manic Depression) is a psychiatric diagnostic category describing a class of mood disorders in which the person experiences clinical depression and / or mania, hypomania, and / or mixed states.

We would like to consider doing it on a larger scale, maybe having several universities studying patients with different diagnostic categories to see how a controlled psychotherapy trial produces physical brain changes as a result of treatment.

The two main diagnostic categories for severe behaviour problems are «oppositional defiant disorder» (ODD) and «conduct disorder» (CD).

The idea that certain diagnostic categories do not belong in group is erroneous as long as the «Noah's Ark Rule» is kept firmly in place.

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) is an umbrella term that encompasses several diagnostic categories related to the adverse effects resulting from in utero exposure to alcohol.

Prominent research psychiatrists who misused DSM diagnostic categories to open up the prescription drug market for children received more than $ 1 million each in kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies for their efforts.

This explosion of cases has raised countless questions: Is the increase real, is it the result of increased awareness and expanding diagnostic categories, is it due to environmental changes, or all of the above?

It may ultimately suggest revisions to diagnostic categories over the coming decades ---- and hopefully lead to new treatments targeted on the basis of genetic factors and patterns of abnormal brain circuit activity, said Cuthbert.

Experts may debate whether nocturnal overeating needs its own diagnostic category, but they don't debate the significance of the problem.

In the case of SEND, while detailed knowledge about specialist diagnostic categories and child development is important, it is not realistic to ask every ITT provider to include the necessary knowledge in a year - long course.

The accompanying pie chart summarizes the most common diagnostic categories in the Biobank as of mid-2014.

«From that standpoint I was able to have a better sense of view of what accessing services means, and it was something more than just the journey through diagnostic categories and labels.»

The only diagnostic category for which psychotherapy had little effect on cost was that of affective disorders (1 RCT involving 121 outpatients).

This issue has been addressed to some degree by the addition of further diagnostic categories to the DSM - III35 and later to the DSM - IV.9, 18,36 The inclusion of «dysthymic disorder» as a diagnosis of subthreshold depressive symptoms dates back to the DSM - III, but «recurrent brief depression» and «minor depressive disorder» were appended to the DSM - IV.

Personality disorders constitute a separate diagnostic category (Axis II) in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM - IV).

eNote that diagnostic category percentages do not add up to 100 % because only three categories of diagnosis are included.

Refusing to use diagnostic categories is refusing to benefit from experience to infer nonobservable features.

This definition creates a group of children with considerable language needs who fall between diagnostic categories; it leaves children with both verbal and non-verbal difficulties at a double disadvantage, with limited specialist support.

The term complex trauma — also known as Complex PTSD — has been proposed as a potential new diagnostic category, Developmental Trauma Disorder, in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), 5th edition (van der Kolk, 2005; van der Kolk et al, 2009).

NIMH's longest serving director, Insel has been instrumental in bringing the study of mental health firmly within the purview of basic biology, and has often ruffled feathers with his rejection of traditional psychiatric diagnostic categories.

Patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS) fall into an importantly different diagnostic category than patients in the more familiar vegetative sta...

The two main diagnostic categories for severe behaviour problems are Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder.

Studies that assess broader diagnostic categories, such as any depressive disorder or dysthymia, will be included only if they report data for MDD separately.

It's a useful term, says Johnny Williamson, MD, medical director of the Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center in Lemont, Illinois, because it's «readily understandable» and encompasses people who don't necessarily fit neatly into traditional diagnostic categories.

«All of these things may be impacted to different degrees across diagnostic categories.»

This principle may serve as a diagnostic category when working with the accumulative effects of black people's experience of oppression.

In other words, antisocial personality disorder which is best understood within the context of clinical and diagnostic categories as an enduring pattern of personal experiences and behaviors marked with disregard for and violation of the rights of others, harmful thinking, chronic pathological lying and manipulation for personal gain; characterizes the lives of many Nigerians at home.

This marks a move away from studies that use the diagnostic categories defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, such as depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, a system that has been criticised for relying on the subjective assessments of doctors rather than clinical tests.

In the short term, I'd expect things will happen as they have hitherto: by the stretching of diagnostic categories, by increasingly profligate off - label use, by people seeking their own medicines from online pharmacies.