In the parlance of the DSM-IV, is narcissism a true personality disorder or a character disorder?
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For many people, ADD is not a disorder but a trait, a way of being in the world.
Having a whole host of medicines to treat a disorder is a good idea, even if they are similar.
Why they occur still isn't clear, but specialists say they have recently begun to understand the migraine as a brain disorder and not a vascular disorder.
The first team found he had a personality disorder, a low psychosis threshold - but decided he was not mentally ill.
If tests confirm you have low testosterone, further testing can determine if a testicular disorder or a pituitary abnormality is the cause.
Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder that presents with recurrent episodes of mood instability of feeling 'high' (mania or hypomania) and 'low' (depression).
Russell's comedy drama is about the relationship between a man with a bipolar disorder and a woman dealing with depression after the death of her husband.
In the 1990s the antidepressant Prozac did for depression what Valium had done for anxiety: destigmatizing a mood disorder into a treatable illness that might be dealt with using a single pill.
The fourth thought: At that same Meetup where I first learned of the Cynefin framework, the speaker, Simon Bennett, asserted that scrum, and by extension, ideas like Radical Management, is a means to help a team get out of prior patterns of behavior and through a phase of disorder in a relatively controlled fashion.
The international study compared the genetic codes of 33, 000 people with a psychiatric disorder with 28, 000 people without a psychiatric disorder.
Anxiety disorders and depression are the most common mental illnesses: 28.8% of the general population will have an anxiety disorder in their lifetime and 20.8% will have a mood disorder, according to a 2005 study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
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Mr Lloyd-Jones said Hinton had been diagnosed with a personality disorder and posed a high risk to the public, but experts decided he should not be detained under the Mental Health Act.
In 2000, Harrell switched again--this time to AstraZeneca 's (nyse: AZN - news - people ) Seroquel on the recommendation of a movement disorder clinic and a doctor who came to one of his jazz shows.
This includes treatment for 80% of the 250, 000 to 350, 000 people who suffer from fatigue due to multiple sclerosis, and perhaps 200, 000 of the 12 million patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea, a sleep disorder that causes a person to stop breathing during the night, but which also causes daytime sleepiness, says Cephalon spokeswoman Sheryl Williams.
"The goal of a person suffering from this disorder in writing those letters would not necessarily be to groom or sexually consummate a relationship in a criminal manner, but rather to satisfy the needs of a psyche belabored by the needs of such a disorder, " the defense lawyers write in their motion.
It puts disorder as a distinct state at the very center of a state diagram.
The DSM's experts considered adding sensory processing disorder as a separate malady for the first time.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder is a psychiatric condition that can result from experiencing a terrifying danger.
One man was arrested for violent disorder following a march in London last month.
The disorder follows a summer of heightened tensions between Northern Ireland's Catholic and Protestant communities.
An inquest has heard a Lincoln student died from a heart disorder after collapsing at a city nightclub.
Well sure, when you put it that way, the use of the word disorder makes a little sense.
On paper, the correlation between heavy fish consumption and low incidence of bipolar disorder is a strong one.
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Something possessed me this morning to see if bipolar disorder had a day.
More than 80 people arrested for violent disorder before a football match in Nuneaton have been released on bail.
For you and your family, coping with the disorder involves a major commitment of physical, emotional and financial resources.
Police said they later dealt with public disorder in a number of locations including Templemore Avenue and the Albertbridge Road.
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Now, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug for treating premenstrual dysphoric disorder, a serious form of premenstrual syndrome.
The film is about a man with bipolar disorder who forms a relationship with a woman who has recently been widowed.
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