Sentences with phrase «disorders characterized»

ASDs are a heterogeneous group of lifelong neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by deficits in social relatedness, repetitive behaviors, restricted interests, and a rigid adherence to specific routines (American Psychiatric Association, 1994).

Instead, the strongest predictors of suicide attempts among ideators were disorders characterized by anxiety and impulse - control problems.

that altered OXT signaling in particular may play a pathophysiological role in mental and developmental disorders characterized by social dysfunction, such as autism, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, and social anxiety disorder.

Histrionic personality disorder is classified by psychologists with the group of personality disorders characterized by overly dramatic, emotional, impulsive or erratic reactions.

Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT) is a new evidence based treatment, supported by 20 years of clinical research, targeting a spectrum of disorders characterized by excessive self control, often referred to as overcontrol (OC).

These findings are consistent with recent findings in epidemiological studies of adults, in which MDD emerged as the strongest predictor of suicidal thoughts compared with disorders characterized by anxiety, agitation, and poor behavioral control, which were the strongest predictors of a suicide attempt among ideators.22, 40

Congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMSs) are heterogeneous neuromuscular disorders characterized by skeletal muscle weakness caused by disruption of signal transmission across the neuromuscular junction (NMJ).

Disruption of signal transmission within the NMJ resulting from presynaptic, synaptic, or post-synaptic defects causes congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMSs), heterogeneous neuromuscular disorders characterized by skeletal muscle weakness and fatigue.

It's also not one single disorder but at least four independent disorders all characterized by an overlapping but inconsistent set of symptoms:

Several studies have shown that low serum magnesium is an independent risk factor for migraine headaches, and that magnesium can be used therapeutically to both prevent and treat migraines, as well as a host of other disorders characterized by spasm.

Autism spectrum disorders comprise a range of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by deficits in social interaction and communication, and by repetitive behaviour.

This study highlights the important point that studies of disorders characterized by considerable heterogeneity, such as ASD, may need to be particularly mindful of potential genetic differences within their samples.

A form of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of rare congenital disorders characterized by impairment of both humoral and cell - mediated immunity, leukopenia, and low or absent antibody levels.

A better grasp of the function of CA2 could prove useful in understanding and treating disorders characterized by altered social behaviors, such as autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.

By identifying the quality control mechanisms that normally operate in cells, Li and other scientists are providing information that may prove relevant to treating disorders characterized by misfolded proteins.

The findings also point to new strategies for targeting disorders characterized by abnormal repetitive behaviors, such as addiction and obsessive - compulsive disorder, or OCD.

In medicine (gastroenterology), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or spastic colon is functional bowel disorders characterized by abdominal pain and changes in bowel habits that is not associated with any abnormalities seen on routine clinical testing.

«If further research could reveal how exactly in - game storytelling affects theory of mind,» he says, «clinicians and software developers could utilize this knowledge to develop tools to aid the treatment of disorders characterized by social - interaction impairments, like autistic disorders.»

They work by promoting the release of dopamine, which is impaired in ADHD and other disorders characterized by executive function problems.

«Our findings support the hypothesis that L1 retroelements, perhaps along with other virus - derived genomic elements, may contribute to the development of autoimmune disorders characterized by high levels of type 1 interferon,» she said.

A psychiatric disorder characterized by obsessive thoughts and compulsive actions, such as cleaning, checking, counting, or hoarding.

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by cognitive impairments, social impairments, communication difficulties, and repetitive behaviors.

She may have selective mutism, which is an anxiety disorder characterized by a child's inability to speak or interact in some settings or around some people.

A night terror, also known as sleep terror or pavor nocturnus, is a parasomnia sleep disorder characterized by extreme terror and a temporary inability to regain full consciousness.

Selective Mutism is a complex childhood anxiety disorder characterized by a child's inability to speak and communicate effectively in select social settings, such as school.

Selective mutism (SM), formerly called elective mutism, is best understood as a childhood anxiety disorder characterized by a child or adolescent's inability to speak in one or more social settings (e.g., at school, in public places, with adults) despite being able to speak comfortably in other settings (e.g., at home with family).

Essential tremor is a neurological disorder characterized by shaking of hands (and sometimes other parts of the body including the head), evoked by intentional movements.

Huntington's disease is a brain disorder characterized by the emergence of decreased motor, cognitive, and psychiatric abilities, most commonly appearing in the mid-30s and 40s.

The classic success story is neonatal screening for phenylketonuria [a genetic disorder characterized by the inability to utilize the amino acid phenylalanine], which has saved thousands of children's brains.

SEATTLE — Some people who have a particular form of a gene that, when mutated, causes Werner's syndrome — a rare disorder characterized by rapid aging in youth — appear to have a relatively low risk of suffering a heart attack.

In the past few years, sleep loss as a disorder characterizing the 24 - hour lifestyle of modern societies has increasingly been shown to represent an additional behavioral factor adversely affecting metabolic health,» write the authors.

Lupus is an autoimmune disorder characterized by periodic inflammation of joints, connective tissues and organs including heart, lungs, kidneys and brain.

According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep - related breathing disorder characterized by repetitive episodes of complete or partial upper airway obstruction occurring during sleep.

By 1977 I had gotten a fellowship at the Institute for Neurology in London, where a professor named John Newsom - Davis was working on myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disorder characterized by weakness often so profound that people lose their ability to breathe.

Mitochondrial diseases include Leigh syndrome, a progressive and fatal disorder characterized by lesions on the brain that may lead to heart, kidney, vision and breathing complications, and Alpers Disease, a neurologic illness that causes seizures, dementia, spasticity, blindness, liver dysfunction and cerebral degeneration.

The researchers found that mutations to a gene called ATF6, a key regulator of the unfolded protein response, can lead to achromatopsia, a hereditary visual disorder characterized by color blindness, decreased vision, light sensitivity, and uncontrolled eye movement in children.

Down syndrome is a chromosomal disorder characterized by cognitive delays and often certain physical features, including reduced stature and brain size.

Around one in five children with Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary movements and vocalizations, met criteria for autism in a study headed by UC San Francisco.

Researchers have identified structural changes in two genes that increase the risk of developing Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary motor and vocal tics.

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by voluntary starvation and exercise stress.

A promising treatment for a rare childhood disorder characterized by rapid aging and death prevented and even reversed the most devastating effect of the disease in mice.

ADHD is a mental disorder characterized by hyperactivity, impulsivity, inattention and inability to focus.

Obstructive sleep apnea is a disorder characterized by snoring, labored breathing and repetitive obstructed pauses or gasps in a persons breathing during sleep.

The HALT - PKD trial enrolled volunteers to test whether a combination of commonly used FDA - approved drugs, lisinopril and telmisartan, could shrink kidney cysts and therefore slow progression of ADPKD, a genetic disorder characterized by growth of fluid - filled cysts in the kidneys.

About 100,000 people in the Netherlands suffer from epilepsy, a disorder characterized by recurrent seizures.

DOWN SYNDROME A chromosomal disorder characterized by an extra copy of chromosome 21.

Commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease (after the famed New York Yankee slugger who succumbed to it in 1941 at age 37), ALS is a poorly understood, incurable disorder characterized by the degeneration of motor neurons (nerve cells that control voluntary motion).

Severe combined immunodeficiency — X1 (SCID - X1) is an X-linked inherited disorder characterized by an early block in T and natural killer (NK) lymphocyte differentiation.

White and colleagues have been studying the health of troops deployed in the 1991 Gulf War for more than 20 years to determine why so many of them suffer from a multi-system disorder characterized by fatigue, joint and muscle pain, headaches, concentration and memory problems, gastrointestinal distress, and skin rashes.

Autism is a widespread disorder characterized by social and communication difficulties and obsessive or repetitive behaviors.