The phrase "a devastating disorder" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a serious medical or psychological condition that has severe negative effects on an individual's life.
Example: "The research highlights the impact of a devastating disorder on the mental health of affected individuals."
Alternatives: "a crippling condition" or "a severe illness".
Similarly, a devastating disorder called glutaric aciduria was traced to an amino acid problem, with a treatment devised to reduce the risk of brain damage.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating disorder that strikes 1 in 10 Americans over the age of 65, and almost half of all Americans over 85 years old.
The writer describes the conflict between insurers and the Hutchinson Center in the Center's effort to use marrow transplantation for a devastating disorder of the immune system called scleroderma.
In this Review, we summarise the current understanding of CADASIL, a devastating disorder that also serves as a model for the more common forms of subcortical ischaemic strokes and pure vascular dementia.
Bluebird, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is also developing gene therapies for sickle-cell disease and childhood cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy, also known as Lorenzo's oil disease, a devastating disorder that affects the nervous system.
A1 A New Approach to Autism A new program at a school for autistic teenagers is rooted in a view of autism as an alternative form of brain wiring, with its own benefits and drawbacks, rather than a devastating disorder in need of curing.
A daring attempt to use gene therapy to treat a rare, devastating disorder that destroys the brains of children has shown signs of slowing the disease's progression, according to a new paper.
Schizophrenia is a particularly devastating disorder, in which thought insertions, delusions of alien control and auditory-verbal hallucinations constitute "first-rank symptoms": FRS [22].
Acute pulmonary embolism (APE) is a common and devastating disorder in the ED population, with a substantially increased risk of morbidity and mortality if missed or untreated in the ED [2].
The work presented here is one important step towards achieving the challenging goal to find and then evaluate an effective treatment, or even a cure, for this devastating disorder.
The ultimate goal of HD research is to identify an effective therapy for this devastating disorder (namely, an intervention capable of modifying either the nature or pace of the pathogenic process), recognizing that different modifiers might be required for subjects at the different stages shown in Figure 2.
