The phrase "a disorder for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a condition or illness that is characterized by specific symptoms or behaviors.
Example: "The study focused on a disorder for which there is currently no known cure."
Alternatives: "a condition for" or "an illness for".
Many of these patients no longer have contact with a treatment clinic, and some are unaware that they have a disorder for which lifelong treatment is recommended.
In this way, Viagra's renewed emphasis on erectile dysfunction resembles the so-called disease-awareness campaigns that pharmaceutical companies have mounted in the past to share information about a disorder for which they produce a remedy.
Psychiatrists who opposed this decision successfully lobbied for a new diagnosis in 1980 that characterized a disorder for those who don't experience heterosexual arousal, but that too was criticized and then removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1986.
'How would I feel if I had a child with a disorder for which there were no objective laboratory-based diagnostics and no drugs to treat the core symptoms?' She became 'consumed' with searching for answers that could substantially improve pediatric health.
"This was a disorder for which it was believed there was no hope, no treatment, and people thought, Why waste your time?" says Craig C. Garner, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and co-director of the Center for Research and Treatment of Down Syndrome at Stanford University.
All will conduct medical research into the origins of mental illness, especially schizophrenia, a disorder for which there have been few new treatments in the last half-century.
Neither do I feel guilty for having a disorder or for looking the way I do.
In carrier testing for a recessive disorder for a couple, the test results for one partner must be interpreted in light of the other partner's results.
"I have been battling depression and an eating disorder for a while now," she captioned a photo of herself in May.
Read this wonderful article by a mom of a little boy with a craniofacial disorder for more on this.
Representative Charlie Norwood, a Georgia Republican who has had a breathing disorder for more than six years, had a lung transplant at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Fairfax, Va.
