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Functional Relevance of Protein Disorder: Why is Disorder Favourable?
… is accumulating. Termed as intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), they populate a number of different conformations in isolation. Interestingly, as part of their function, some IDPs become fully or partly structured upon interaction with their binding partners. This process, known as …
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Genetic analysis of bipolar disorder and alcohol use disorder
Background: Mental health disorders represent a major public health problem in most countries around the world. In South Africa, the lifetime prevalence of psychiatric disorders is 30.3%, with substance-use disorders and mood disorders being the second and third most prevalent classes of lifetime …
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DISORDER IN MATERIALS
The initial aims of the project were to study the heat capacity of polymeric electrolyte materials using adiabatic calorimetry and other techniques, in order to obtain more information about their structure and conduction. In addition, extended x-ray absorption fine structure (BXAFS) was to be used …
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Crime and disorder
… strategies in implementing the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. Fieldwork focused on the development of metropolitan borough strategies in twenty-one London boroughs, and a police sector and two social housing estate strategies in the borough of Westminster. Resort to civil and public law …
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Disorder-Free Localization
… (MBL), both depend crucially on the presence of disorder. Here we introduce a family of simple translationally invariant models of fermions locally coupled to spins, which have a disorder-free mechanism for localization. This mechanism is due to a local Z$_{2}$ gauge symmetry and we uncover the …
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Evidence of Executive Dysfunction in Co-occurring Substance Use Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder or Antisocial Personality Disorder
… of individuals in treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs) have co-existing lifetime psychopathology. Executive function deficits are tied to markers of decreased quality of life including increases in negative life events (Green, Kern, Braff, & Mintz, 2000), maladaptive social functioning …
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Living with Body Dysmorphic Disorder or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. An IPA study.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) share many similarities such as the presence of obsessions and compulsions, a similar age of onset and also similar activation of underlying structures within the brain related to obsessions and compulsion formation. The …
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Neuropsychological Comparisons Of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Subtype And Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptomatology
<p>Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) are often severe and disabling psychiatric conditions. Although BDD is currently regarded as a somatoform disorder in the DSM-IV, it has been suggested that it would be better classified as being part of an …
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder in Youth: Are They Distinguishable?
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is defined by persistent, irrational anxiety in social situations while generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by excessive worry unrelated to any specific situation. These two disorders share some features and are frequently comorbid in children and …
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Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
… will experience an undiagnosed mental health disorder during pregnancy and postpartum due to social stigmas preventing treatment, multifaceted health disparities preventing healthcare access, and healthcare systems insufficiencies hindering current treatment. Within the health research and …
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Hoarding Disorder: new horizons
… theme of this contextual statement is Hoarding Disorder (HD), which can be defined as a failure to discard possessions, which may be useless or of little value, resulting in excessive clutter that precludes activities for which the living space was originally intended. Individuals with HD have a …
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Heterogeneity in hyperkinetic disorder
… phenotype of attention deficit – hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a heterogeneous condition and that this heterogeneity is seen across all levels of analysis from the genetic and environmental causes to the associated neuropsychological deficits, the clinical presentation and response to …
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The Genetic Epidemiology of Purging Disorder, Anorexia Nervosa, and Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
… of factors influence the development of eating disorders, genetic factors contribute notably to their etiology. Understanding genetic factors associated with eating disorders is important, as they can influence how these disorders are recognized, researched, and treated. This dissertation …
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From Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder to Substance Use Disorder: Perspectives from Recovering Addicts
… who have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are often at high risk of acquiring Substance Use Disorder (SUD). When a diagnosis is determined for a school age child, the special education team mainly focuses on the most obvious problems that occur with ADHD: executive function …
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Use of the eating disorder inventory in determining eating disorder tendencies among runners
The purpose of this study was to use the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI), Negative Addiction Scale (NAS) and other measured characteristics to determine differences between consistent runners and sedentary controls. 38 male and 23 female local non-team related runners of more than 9 miles per week …
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Identifying Attention Commonalities and Differences Between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder
… information) in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as compared to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). The orienting processes of disengagement (i.e., reallocation of attention away from one stimulus onto another) and shifting (i.e., movement of attention from one …
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Antisocial Personality Disorder Comorbidity in Methamphetamine Use Disorder: Sociodemographic, clinical and childhood trauma correlates
… pathology, especially antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), often occurs in patients with methamphetamine use disorder (MAUD). However, little is known about potential risk factors for this dual diagnosis, and the impact of this comorbidity on both the severity of MAUD and levels of …
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Intrinsic Disorder in Transcription Factors
… suggested that high abundance of intrinsic disorder in eukaryotic genomes in comparison to bacteria and archaea may reflect the greater need for disorder-associated signaling and transcriptional regulation in nucleated cells. The major advantage of intrinsically disordered proteins or …
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Risk taking in bipolar disorder
… 1Background: People with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder can make suboptimal decisions during manic and depressive episodes which can have negative long-term consequences. This review aims to explore individual factors, including mood state and personality traits, which could affect decision …
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Acetylcholine and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric condition that can develop following exposure to a traumatic event involving actual or threatened death or serious injury. Responses include intense fear, helplessness or horror. Symptoms are characterised into clusters, described as …
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