psychiatric disturbance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpsychiatricanddisturbance
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psychiatric
adjective
uk/ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.rɪk/us/ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.rɪk/
of or relating to the study of ...
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disturbance
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈstɜː.bəns/us/dɪˈstɝː.bəns/
something that interrupts someone or makes someone ...
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(Definition ofpsychiatricanddisturbancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A procedure for measuring overall severity ofpsychiatricdisturbance.
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The longitudinal nature of our data enables the investigation of the genetic structure of the changes inpsychiatricdisturbancethat occur with time (chronicity).
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These findings further substantiate the idea that fatigue is neither purely predictive nor a consequence ofpsychiatricdisturbance, but rather is aetiologically heterogeneous.
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Patients experience brief, clustered nocturnal motor seizures, and can be misdiagnosed as suffering from sleep disorders orpsychiatricdisturbance.
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It is however a proxy measure of severity of overallpsychiatricdisturbance.
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All of the children were free of psychological orpsychiatricdisturbance(as indicated by parent report) and were taking no medication for any reason.
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In developmental psychopathology, multiple etiological mechanisms forpsychiatricdisturbanceare well recognized, including those operating at genetic, neurobiological, and environmental levels of analysis.
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For many women, the impact can result in emotional distress and reduced coping, which may reach the level of diagnosablepsychiatricdisturbance.
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The global assessment scale : a procedure for measuring the overall severity ofpsychiatricdisturbance.
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They should not, however, be taken for evidence ofpsychiatricdisturbanceand, although they sometimes recur over many years,19 they are perfectly normal.
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The greatest change was the increase of participants experiencing emotional\\psychiatricdisturbance(9 % and 48 % respectively).
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They are certainly a much less 'pathological' group than multiple aborters, and it is difficult to argue that their late presentation is due to some kind ofpsychiatricdisturbance.
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Poorer child functioning was linked with greater maternalpsychiatricdisturbanceand sensation seeking and with lower child cognitive abilities.
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Language disorders associated withpsychiatricdisturbance.
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The number of such diagnoses is thus not thought to be a reliable indicator of the scale of childhoodpsychiatricdisturbance.
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Depression and isolation, leading topsychiatricdisturbance, are problems which we must face up to.
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There may be no evidence ofpsychiatricdisturbanceand, as a result, no psychiatric therapy may be required.
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Although the acute porphyrias may cause episodes of confusion andpsychiatricdisturbance, dementia is a rare feature of these rare diseases.
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The fall of 2005 marked the opening of a dually diagnosed program for youngsters with both intellectual disabilities and serious emotional,psychiatricdisturbance.
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