Sentences with phrase «features of the disorder»

Stomach pain (more fancily called a liver - spleen disorder): the distinguishing feature of this disorder that begins suddenly with sharp cries.

The name is apt, because the most conspicuous feature of the disorder is a withdrawal from social interaction.

«The physical features of the disorder are not well known, making it difficult for pediatricians to diagnose,» said Dr. Close, who conducted this study while a doctoral student at Columbia University School of Nursing.

To date, researchers have created 676 mouse models that supposedly capture some features of the disorder.

Even the revised fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual, published in 2000, specifies the core features of the disorder as the «presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states.»

In fact, a lack of eye contact is one of the diagnostic features of the disorder.

Its presence in all erythropoietin - independent erythroid colonies demonstrates a link with growth factor hypersensitivity, a key biological feature of these disorders.

Taken together, these findings suggest that brain stimulation may reduce symptoms of anorexia by improving cognitive control over compulsive features of the disorder,» McClelland said.

Weight loss is particularly difficult for women with PCOS as one of the features of this disorder is that it makes you gain weight faster and easier than other people do (Teede et al. 2010).

It is not unusual for individuals with oppositional defiant disorder to show the behavioral features of the disorder without problems of negative mood.

Aggressive behaviours towards other persons or animals or properties, as well as deceitfulness, theft or other severe violations of rules are the core features of this disorder [2].

Not exact matches

Doctors can snap pictures of their patients and upload them to FDNA's mobile app, which then spits out a list of disorders they might have by analyzing telltale facial features associated with those conditions (the tech is not a diagnostic tool, but rather a way to narrow down the list of possible genetic suspects).

Another proposed revision to the new DSM qualifies the definition of personality disorders: this diagnosis «excludes culturally normative personality features.»

One of the hallmark features of autism spectrum disorders is social impairments.

Babies with Jacobsen's experience a multitude of symptoms, including delayed development, cognitive impairment, behavioral issues, distinctive facial features, feeding difficulties, and almost all have Paris - Trousseau syndrome, a bleeding disorder.

In the past, the API Live teleseminars have featured Dr. Kathleen Kendall - Tackett discussing parental depression, Dr. Bob Sears chatting about autism spectrum disorders, Mothering magazine editor Peggy O'Mara discussing how we can get real with ourselves and our children, Ina May Gaskin speaking on the topic of the gift of loving your best birth, and much more.

So autism spectrum disorders are diagnosed based on a set of features.

In our input to the committee we wrote: We continue to support the recommended addition of a specifier, as it is stated on the DSM 5 website, «With Postpartum Onset,» that can be applied to a current or most recent Major Depressive Episode, Manic, or Mixed Features in Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar I Disorder, or Bipolar II Disorder, or to Brief Psychotic Disorder, and that the onset of the episode be extended to within 6 months postpartum.

Most of the time «elf ears» are harmless and nothing more than a cute feature which is why it has a place on this list, but in some cases it can be a symptom of an ear disorder that can need further medical attention.

This video from the Kennedy Krieger Institute, in Baltimore, features three children who show early signs of autism spectrum disorder playing with toys and interacting and communicating with others.

Given these features of kettling, one might argue that his opinion subverts itself: the predictable effects of kettling, in terms of increasing disorder and risk of injury to (innocent) parties, are such that it can never - or hardly ever - be a «proportionate» and / or «good faith» response to a problem of disorder in a protesting crowd.

But studying this tissue can not reveal the features of such disorders that are more related to behaviour, she says.

Now, CNIO researchers have discovered a new feature of this inflammatory disorder.

Muotri's work is a nice demonstration of the power of mini-brains to help understand the early, cellular features of neurological disorders, says Madeline Lancaster at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, who developed the organoid - growing method Muotri used.

Beyond PSP, other brain diseases are also marked by abnormal tau clumps — among them a rare movement disorder called corticobasal degeneration, an inherited form of frontotemporal dementia with Parkinson's - like features, and Alzheimer's disease.

One such study featured data finding a correlation between children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and high levels of lead in the blood.

Scientists know that accumulation of somatic DNA mutations is a feature of aging, though little data exists on the role of such mutations in age - associated disorders beyond cancer.

Early signs of BD can fall into a relatively characteristic «homotypic» pattern, consisting mainly of symptoms or other features associated with mood disorders; or a «heterotypic» pattern of other symptoms including anxiety and disruptive behavior.

Researchers would then have to pore through four or five databases for each one, trying to discern which genes (or the proteins they encode) have features most likely to affect the biology of the disorder — a painstaking task.

Clinical features of major depressive disorder (MDD) may help identify specific subgroups of depressed patients based on associations with genetic risk for major psychiatric disorders, reports a study in Biological Psychiatry.

The authors of On the Beauty of Physics feature «The Last Supper» as a case study of entropy — a measure of the tendency toward disorder in a thermodynamic system.

As Beau vividly illustrated, the disorder's most conspicuous feature is cataplexy, which can range from a mere sagging of the jaw and buckling of the knees to full, severe, and instantaneous rag - doll limpness that can last for minutes.

Mutations in a gene called progranulin (GRN) are commonly associated with frontotemporal dementia, but GRN mutations in mice do not mimic all the features of the human disorder, which has limited progress in the development of effective treatments.

In September, Hagerman and colleagues reported that arbaclofen, a drug that stimulates a type of GABA receptor, reduced social avoidance in people with fragile X syndrome, a genetic disorder that shares many features with autism.

The current edition of the DSM, the DSM - IV, is something like a field guide to mental disorders: the book pairs each illness with a checklist of symptoms, just as a naturalist's guide describes the distinctive physical features of different birds.

The letter further contends that recent chimp studies for the first time have identified «unique features of the human brain and have documented the unusual vulnerability of humans to a variety of disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, infectious diseases, cancer, and heart disease.»

Stephen W. Scherer, Ph.D., of the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and colleagues performed chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) and whole - exome sequencing (WES) in a group of 258 unrelated children with ASD to determine the molecular diagnostic yield (the percentage of subjects with a genetic alteration [mutation] that may contribute to the features of autism spectrum disorder) of these tests.

The invocation of cell death in this disorder would explain the clinical feature, the small heads caused by loss of nerve cells in the brain, the team found.

«Mouse behavior isn't the same as human behavior, so we need to be cautious, but we were surprised and heartened by the fact that the mutant mice responded to lithium treatment — a gold standard for treating human bipolar disorder and alleviating features of mania and depression,» says Christopher Ross, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dr. Coban explains, «Although chronic inflammatory conditions are known to facilitate bone disorders, our study - for the first time - shows that malaria can do the same thing, with hallmark «signatures» left in the bone tissue, a very unique feature of malaria infection.

In 2002 psychologist Paul Nestor of the University of Massachusetts Boston found that individuals with marked features of NPD are at risk for violence and for antisocial personality disorder, a condition that is tied to crime and other irresponsible acts.

In the course of screening over 180 mutant mouse strains with a systematic battery of behavioral tests, Dr. Tsuyoshi Miyakawa and his colleagues found that mice with heterozygous knockout of the alpha - isoform of calcium / calmodulin - dependent protein kinase II (αCaMKII) exhibit behavioral deficits and other brain features consistent with bipolar disorder.

This «chromosomal disorder» is a key feature of the gibbon genome and has probably occurred after their secession from the ancestral line of the apes and humans.

The results are also important as they suggest that the same sets of genetic risks contribute to different aspects of child development which are characteristic features of neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD and autism spectrum disorder.»

Accumulation of misfolded protein aggregates is not only present in T2D but also is the main feature of a group of diseases known as protein misfolding disorders (PMDs), including various neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and prion disorders, as well as several systemic amyloidosis disease (Luheshi et al., 2008; Soto and Estrada, 2008).

This year's ASENT meeting featured a symposium on spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), an inherited motor neuron disease that is the second most common autosomal recessive disorder of children and the most common genetic cause of death in infancy, as a case study in neurology orphan drug development.

Lastly, increased systemic inflammation seen during ageing is also apparent in chronic infections such HIV or cytomegalovirus, 10,15 obesity7 and individuals enduring chronic psychological stress.16 Similarly, the main features of immunosenescence are apparent in many of these conditions, including decreased antibody responses, increased infections, malignancies and also incidences of inflammatory associated disorders such as cardiovascular disease.7, 10,15,16 Inflammation and premature immunosenescence are, therefore, prevalent features of many common conditions of modern life, such as obesity and stress, and could have negative health consequences for large proportions of society well before old age is reached.

While patients with neurodevelopmental disorders like intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder have clinical features which overlap, there is an enormous diversity of underlying genetic causes.

Understanding these hereditary and interrelated disorders will require better in vitro liver models that capture important physiological features of disease progression.

Patrick Bellgowan, Ph.D., a program director at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at NIH, says the study is a clear demonstration of how the open science approach to data can help generate new hypotheses about brain disorders: «Through data sharing and collaboration, ENIGMA is working to uncover important common and distinguishing neurobiological and genetic features of psychiatric and neurological disorders.»