disorder
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The American Society of Addiction Medicine defines addiction as a chronic brain disorder.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
The Louvre and several other major Paris museums were closed for the day, while the Art Basel Paris fair ended early amid fears of further disorder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
"Police have a responsibility both to ensure that protests can take place peacefully and safely and to protect the public from violent disorder," said Eva Cosse, senior Europe researcher at Human Rights Watch.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
“So, this is a huge area where identifying interventions that could hopefully add quality of life to the people impacted by this disorder would be tremendously impactful.”
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
His mental breakdown was the result of a near-textbook case of manic-depression—bipolar disorder.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Identifying that chemical could help scientists better understand neurological disorders, unusual visual experiences, and the processes through which the brain creates our perception of reality.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
She worries many of them will develop post-traumatic stress disorders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
A better understanding of the cellular mechanisms that control neuron production and brain growth could ultimately help researchers study developmental disorders affecting the human brain.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
However, people with precancerous blood disorders and blood cancers often have persistently low vitamin C levels.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Developing more positive attitudes about teaching students with behavior disorders goes a long way to reduce the stress of teaching them.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Rather than simply becoming disordered, the particles rearrange themselves into an unusual configuration that behaves differently from the quantum systems scientists have traditionally studied.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Bossy’s direction raises the clamorous volume instead of sorting out the disordered structure or digging into the unexamined silences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Rather than understanding dissociation as a symptom of disordered eating, researchers increasingly consider how it may both emerge from and help maintain these patterns.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Dr Neil Stanley, sleep expert and author of the book How to Sleep Well, argues that gamifying sleep is creating more disordered sleeping.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Let us get reinforcements,” said Bono; which now I see was but his way to distract me from my course, but which then, in my disordered state, seemed excellent advice.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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The researchers then expose the cilia to a damped, alternating magnetic field which has the effect of disordering the magnetization of the microparticles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
The economic and social troubles of 1993 rippled through my community, as these things do, disordering the trajectories of lives and industries to the ruin of some.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
But there will be many pairs of events that are causally related, that will end up far from each other—thus disordering space and locality.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 4, 2019
Furthermore, disordering the ligand distribution drastically increases adhesion growth, but reduces the rigidity threshold for adhesion collapse.
From Nature ● Dec. 5, 2017
But the vapour of a limekiln would come between me and them, disordering them all, and it was through the vapour at last that I saw two men looking at me.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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