Sentences with phrase «illness onset during»

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Identifying your risks during pregnancy, and even before conception, can be critical to protecting yourself from a severe symptoms of perinatal illness and in a number of cases, actually prevent the onset of a perinatal mood disorder.

Scientists have made progress in identifying early warning signs of Alzheimer's disease, with recent studies claiming that losing the sense of smell and sleepiness during the day are possible signals of the onset of the illness.

Interestingly dogs are most contagious during this incubation period (the time from exposure to the development of clinical signs); furthermore they can continue to shed the virus for up to 10 days after onset of clinical illness.

The onset of mental illness (typically during adolescence) can amplify symptoms of attachment disorder.

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.

The onset of a chronic illness during adolescence likely has very different implications for development than earlier onset (Spirito, DeLawyer, & Stark, 1991).