Language in South Africa's mental health policy focuses on mental health and substance use disorders (53), but we broadened the definition to MNS disorders to include patients with neurological disorders, such as epilepsy, who are often treated in mental health care facilities alongside those with mood disorders, anxiety, schizophrenia, and substance use disorders.
More recently, CDC's approach to blood disorders was broadened to encompass work in addressing many secondary conditions including the health of people with disabling or rare blood disorders, and women's health issues, as well as in acquiring high-capacity molecular diagnostic technology and increasing the DBD's intellectual expertise in genetics.
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) has broadened the criteria for specified bipolar disorders with the introduction of the diagnostic category of 'other specified bipolar and related disorders' (DSM-5: 296.89).
The diagnosis criteria for autism spectrum disorders were broadened in the 1990s to encompass not just the most severely affected children, who might be intellectually disabled, nonverbal or prone to self-injury, but those with widely varying symptoms and intellectual abilities who shared a fundamental difficulty with social interaction.
A few weeks ago, I noticed on Facebook that my friend, an inspiring woman who lives with bipolar disorder, had broadened her daily selection of uplifting memes to include sombre, arresting descriptions of the pain and loneliness felt by a person suffering a depressive episode.
However the publication of DSM-III changed the name of this mental disorder to Antisocial Personality Disorder and also broadened the diagnostic criteria considerably by shifting from clinical inferences to behavioral diagnostic criteria.
The understanding of appetite disturbance and eating disorders has been broadened from what used to be a mainly psychological vantage point.
If the criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are broadened, then more people are likely to be diagnosed with the condition.
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In addition, we broadened our definition of anxiety disorder subjects to include individuals with sub-threshold diagnoses as defined by the CIDI (extended diagnostic group).
