Sentences with phrase «severe psychiatric condition»

Abstract: The article describes the medical and psychosocial aspects of borderline personality disorder, a common and sometimes severe psychiatric condition marked by emotional instability and problems with interpersonal relationships.

Many of the tasks listed above are tasks that seem «normal» to those viewing them from outside a specific situation; however, they are actually lifesaving to individuals suffering from severe psychiatric conditions.

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Known for her pioneering work on borderline personality disorder (BPD), a severe and intractable psychiatric condition, 68 - year - old Linehan announced that as an adolescent, she had been hospitalized for BPD.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- In recognition of his work to understand and improve treatments for psychiatric conditions including autism and severe intellectual disability, the White House on Monday, Jan. 9, named Dr. Eric Morrow as winner of a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering.

Major Neurocognitive Disorder is diagnosed when disturbance of a single cognitive ability is severe enough to interfere with independence, and the disturbance is not caused by drug use, delirium, or various other medical or psychiatric conditions.

I'm going to give it a try,» or they can say, «Well, I think I'm going to wait for a few more trials, FDA approval,» and they can sit back, but more and more, the public are ready to evaluate science simultaneously and take these very common sense, very easy... Well, behavior is not an easy thing to change, but far easier than taking chemotherapy or disease modifying drugs that are going to shut down your immune system and give you life - threatening side effects, that could let you get your life back from an autoimmune condition, or a serious psychiatric problem, or a severe diabetes, obesity, and heart disease, things that are completely under their control.

Intellectual disability (ID) affects 143/10 000 children1 and is associated with a range of comorbid health conditions.2 — 4 It is heterogeneous, 5 and clustering of some medical conditions may be associated with particular disorders such as Down syndrome6 or Prader - Willi syndrome.7 While epilepsy and sensory impairments often occur in association with specific syndromes or more severe cognitive impairment, conditions such as fractures or obesity may develop as secondary to medication use, nutritional deficiency or lack of mobility.2 Consequently, children with ID may face greater health challenges than typically developing children and use healthcare systems more frequently.8, 9 Mental health problems are also common in people with ID.10 For instance, in a Canadian adolescent and adult population with ID, a high proportion of hospitalisations was attributed to the presence of psychiatric conditions.11

According to clinical judgement, participants were excluded if they suffered from severe depression (≥ 7 criteria, including main symptoms), severe anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, severe psychiatric and psychotic conditions, substance abuse, suicidal ideation or if they exhibited low - German language and / or computer skills.

The award was bestowed in recognition of his work on understanding and improving treatments for psychiatric conditions including autism and severe intellectual disability.

These included: psychiatric disorder (duration and severity between ages 15 and 32 years, coded into none (59 %, no evidence of psychiatric disorders), mild (37 %, minor or inconsequential nervous disorders) or severe (5 %, psychiatric episodes of more than a year's duration, or any out - patient or in - patient episodes for psychiatric disorder); neuroticism and extraversion (measured at age 26 years by the Maudsley Personality Inventory14); chronic illness (physical, non-fatal conditions in 14 % of parents between ages 20 — 25 years); physical activity (frequency and duration in the preceding month collected at age 36 years.