The phrase "a specific disorder of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a particular medical or psychological condition that affects a certain part of the body or mind.
Example: "The study focused on a specific disorder of the nervous system known as multiple sclerosis."
Alternatives: "a particular condition of" or "a distinct ailment of".
Even if we focused here on different aspects or subgroups of a specific disorder, some of the same validating principles should apply here, as for disease entities.
GNAS inactivating mutations, either by presence alone or by mutation pattern within GNAS, do not predict a specific disorder, variability of phenotype, or severity of progression within this spectrum.
However, there is no pattern of abnormalities, craniofacial, behavioral, or otherwise, that would arouse clinical suspicion of a 20q13.33 microdeletion; thus, molecular cytogenetic techniques such as aCGH that do not rely on clinical suspicion of a specific disorder are useful for diagnosis of individuals with these imbalances.
Reviews on the prevalence rates of a specific disorder or complaints in one region of the upper extremity have been reported elsewhere.
While Young supports the classification of Internet addiction as a specific disorder in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (due in 2013), others prefer the terms "dependence" and "heavy reliance" upon technology.
In turn, sensitivity, that is, the probability of a diagnosis of a specific disorder at t1 if the disorder is present at t2, was 96% for autistic disorder, 32% for PDD-NOS, and 96% for ASD.
Impairments of ASA here were not attributable to disease duration or general cognitive executive performance, consistent with a relatively specific disorder of auditory cognition.
Indeed, it has been shown that symptoms of depression, regardless of whether a specific disorder diagnosis has been made, were associated with multiple incidents of fighting [ 34].
