Some in the field have been frustrated by the classification system, which focuses on behavioral symptoms and not on chemical changes or brain abnormalities.

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"People are just beginning to think about modifying the immune inflammatory response to see if it has some sort of effect on behavioral symptoms, " says Dr. Hollander.

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Luckily, the rich repertoire of behavioral symptoms shown in cinema gives the astute neuroscientist or neurologist clues as to the anatomical and physiological underpinnings of zombie behavior.

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Rankin and her team focused on a a specific type of neurodegenerative disease called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, a group of disorders in which patients can experience behavioral symptoms such as personality changes, a loss of inhibition and social tact as well as language difficulties, such as an inability to understand words.

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Some of the ASAM symptoms of behavioral addiction can potentially be defined as an RRBI in clinical practice.

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Smith says that cognitive behavioral tricks can almost eliminate symptoms such as panic attacks.

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In people, symptoms of the disease include psychiatric and behavioral changes, movement deficits, memory disturbances and cognitive impairments.

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And if they have a form of autism that is already under way, then we could intervene with either behavioral therapies or other biomedical therapies to diminish the signs and symptoms of their autism.

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