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disorder

[dis′ȯrd·ər]

(crystallography)

Departures from regularity in the occupation of lattice sites in a crystal containing more than one element.

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Carolyn Costin, a marriage and family therapist at the Eating Disorder Center of California in Malibu and author of ``The Eating Disorders Source Book,'' viewed ``Thin'' Thursday at a professional conference in Philadelphia.

`THIN' DOCUMENTS DEADLY OBSESSION

But Brooks emphasizes that the issue is far more complicated: "While there is truth to this idea, it's more likely the ease that eating disorders develop when there are many factors at work over time, including family pressures, shame, and mixed messages about food, appearance, and weight.

Wasting away: what's driving young gay men to starve, binge, and purge?

Blakemore's group used a vibrating device to stimulate the tip of the left index finger on 10 adults with Asperger syndrome and 9 adults who had no developmental disorder.

Outside looking in: researchers open new windows on Asperger syndrome and related disorders

He gives considerable attention to issues regarding the diagnosis of conduct disorder.

Thomas Grisso, Double Jeopardy: Adolescent Offenders with Mental Disorders

People use it recklessly to characterize anyone who believes that homosexual encounters represent a disorder.

Mass disorder

Instead of starving themselves, people with an eating disorder called bulimia (or bulimia nervosa) eat a huge amount-like a quart of ice cream, a giant bag of chips, or a package of cookies-in a short time.

Eating troubles

The categorical model assumes that a child either has a disorder, or does not.

Children's mental health and camp what is our role?

For over 20 years, the Broken Windows Theory--that neighborhood disorder leads to serious violent crime--has influenced policing.

Situational policing

Early-onset bipolar disorder is often difficult to recognize and diagnose because distinguishing between normal behaviors and pathological behaviors in children can be challenging, and because symptoms of bipolar disorder may resemble those of, and/or co-occur with, other common childhood-onset mental disorders (Bowring & Kovacs, 1992; National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2000; Papolos & Papolos, 1999).

A closer examination of bipolar disorder in school-age children

However, the DSM-IV TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, Text Revised) defines Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) as a mental illness in which a person consistently experiences deep, unshakable sadness and diminished interest in all activities for a period of at least 2 weeks.

Etiology of depression in children

2005) in this issue of Environmental Health Perspectives reignites the issue of the role that phthalate exposure during pregnancy may play in the etiology of reproductive disorders in human males.

Phthalate exposure during pregnancy and lower anogenital index in boys: wider implications for the general population?

Just under 3 per cent of Canadians aged 25 to 46 years have experienced at least one manic episode suggestive of Bipolar I Disorder according to the data from the 2002 Canadian Community Health Survey: Mental Health and Well-being.