Sentences with phrase «own diagnostic category»

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

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.

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.

Shattuck did not reject the idea that rising autism levels might be in part due to environmental causes; he merely showed the increase was largely an artifact of changing diagnostic practices, which themselves had been enabled by rising levels of attention to autism and its listing as a diagnostic category in special education.

High performing hospitals had fewer readmissions across all diagnostic categories and time periods after discharge.

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

Proposed in 2010 by Thomas Insel, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, the RDoC aims to go beyond the DSM's lists of behavioral symptoms and diagnostic categories.

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.

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.

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?

For the first time, it will include a diagnostic category for «behavioral addictions.»

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.»

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.

«There is no diagnostic category for anger, nor do I think there should be, so anger slips from research attention.»

«Particularly in tumors which we can not easily assign to a diagnostic category based solely on microscopic examination, methylation analysis is often helpful to make a precise diagnosis.

«These four diagnostic categories remain the most apt descriptors of the range of disabilities observed within the continuum of FASD,» said Dr. Kenneth R. Warren, senior advisor to the NIAAA director, who co-authored the updated guidelines.

«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.

They «may encounter difficulties at later stages of their lives that manifest as a different diagnostic category, or one that reduces fecundity.»

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

Important directions for future work include assessing interactions between diagnostic category, IQ, and functional connectivity measures.

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

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

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.

In the same way, diagnostic categories are based on observable features of the child (that is, symptoms) and tell us something about nonobservable features (such as the neural basis or associated risk factors).

Levine's approach leads him to take a contrarian view of two of them: diagnostic categories and the effectiveness of medications for ADHD.

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

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

Levine does not simply mean that one should not tell the child, «You have disorder X.» His comment in A Mind at a Time, «I have seen no convincing scientific evidence that [Asperger's syndrome] exists as a discrete disorder of some kind like a strep throat» indicates a belief that a diagnostic category must have a clear boundary of symptoms and that the relationship between the cognitive, neural, behavioral, and genetic factors must be understood before the category is useful.

Psychiatry and neurology make use of diagnostic categories that initially did not meet these criteria or still do not (for example, schizophrenia, depression, Alzheimer's disease), but nevertheless prove useful.

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.

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.

They also include specific treatment suggestions for each diagnostic category, take - home instructions for cat owners, and what steps practitioners can take if the frustrated client is considering euthanasia.

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

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

Bereavement is a diagnostic category currently identified with a V code in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM - IV).

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.

Most previous studies had examined the effect of extreme parental ages in clinical samples with regard to a particular mental disorder; rarely had assessments been conducted across diagnostic categories.1

However, traditional objections to findings not based on clinical diagnostic categories are lessened by evidence that CMD are most validly represented as a single dimension encompassing comorbid anxiety and depression.43 — 45 One important problem is that measures such as the general health questionnaire may be prone to socioeconomic response bias, with those in lower occupational grades underreporting symptoms.46

4 diagnostic categories were assigned: MDD with or without any other disorder, dysthymia with or without any other disorder (except MDD), any disorder other than MDD or dysthymia, and no disorder.

The assessment team (principal investigator, postdoctoral coordinator, and interviewers) met within 48 hours of an assessment to determine study eligibility and diagnostic category (ie, depressive spectrum or bipolar spectrum).

This is probably quite appropriate, given our limited understanding of the validity of the different diagnostic categories in this age group.

Developmental trauma disorder is a new diagnostic category that encapsulates traditional diagnoses of complex trauma, conduct disorders and reactive attachment disorder.

Also, two types of validity data were summarized: concurrent / predictive validity (or criterion - related validity, which includes reported correlations between the measure and outcomes that the measure was expected to predict, including differentiation between diagnostic categories) and convergent validity (which includes correlations between the target measure and other measures that are purported to assess the same construct).

To that end, Imago Relationship International supports research that involves the use of Imago Therapy and any aspect of Imago Therapy that is explicitly described by its founder, research that evaluates the impact Imago Therapy has on individuals, couples, and other systems over a wide range of impact variables including outcome studies of workshops and in - office treatment regimes, neuroscience and biological studies involving Imago Relationship Therapy; and the use of Imago Relationship Therapy with specific diagnostic categories and its effect on positive outcomes.

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

Part of the problem, no doubt, is that «depression» is a broad, poorly defined diagnostic category, which embraces a daunting range of symptoms, including cognitive and physical lethargy, mental rumination, loss of concentration, chronic negativity and pessimism, feelings of worthlessness, and unremitting sadness.

The course will include an analysis of the diagnostic categories as well as the research concerning etiology and treatment.

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).

In addition, as Warshak has written, although the DSM - V has no specific diagnosis of «parental alienation,» the DSM - V includes, under the heading «Relational Problems» and the sub-heading «Problems Related to Family Upbringing,» two diagnostic categories that describe children who are irrationally alienated from a parent.

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.