The phrase "a key deficit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a significant shortcoming or lack in a particular area, often in discussions about performance, resources, or skills.
Example: "The report highlighted a key deficit in the company's marketing strategy that needs to be addressed for future growth."
Alternatives: "a major shortcoming" or "a critical lack".
However, the public finances still look to be on course to move into the black by 2017-18 on a key deficit measure: the cyclically adjusted current budget.
The latent inhibition paradigm assesses a subject's tendency to ignore irrelevant stimuli, a process integral to healthy perceptual and cognitive function that has been hypothesized to be a key deficit underlying the development of schizophrenia.
However, this finding is consistent with research identifying that an inability to generate solutions in the context of life stressors or psychological distress is a key deficit among individuals who have considered or attempted suicide [ 58].
Although our findings are consistent with the modulation of attention by nigro-striatal dopamine and with poor attention being a key deficit in the clinical profile of ADHD, our data also suggest that dopamine dysregulation per se is unlikely to be the primary cause underlying ADHD pathology in adults.
His refusal to name a date is expected to lead to further deadlock as parliament prepares to debate a key deficit-bond issuance bill.
A further key deficit lies in the fact that prescription data are not necessarily identical to the actual use of a drug, as the latter depends on compliance.
An impaired ability to suppress currently irrelevant mental-sets is a key cognitive deficit in depression.
Nonetheless, impaired number magnitude (i.e., numerosity) processing should be considered a key cognitive deficit of developmental dyscalculia [ 3- 5].
Together, our data suggest that the lack of CLN3 function leads to a failure to manage the response to oxidative stress and this may be the key deficit in JNCL that leads to neuronal degeneration.
However, if poor sequence learning is the key deficit in SLI, we would expect to see superior performance in the pursuit rotor task compared with the SRT task.
On the other hand, the momentum deriving from the first national red-green alliance was not powerful enough to neutralise the coalition government's key deficits.
