Sentence examples for disorder afflicted from inspiring English sources

In August , 2002 Time published a cover story titled "Young and Bipolar," with the tagline "Once Called Manic Depression, the Disorder Afflicted Adults.

The disorder afflicts one in 500 people, though not always with fatal results.

Estimates have obsessive-compulsive disorder afflicting anywhere from 2.5 percent to 8 percent of the human population.

In World War II, many doctors were puzzled by jaundice, a liver disorder afflicting many Allied troops.

PKU, an inherited metabolic disorder, afflicts one in 20,000 of the four million babies born each year in the United States.

Type 2 diabetes, also known as adult-onset diabetes, has become a highly common disorder, afflicting 16 million to 20 million people in the United States.

A10 Bowel Drug Approved The F.D.A. approved Zelnorm, the first drug for women with a form of irritable bowel syndrome, a painful disorder afflicting millions.

Borderline personality disorder afflicts about 2percentt of the general population, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, and it is twice as common as a much better-known disorder, schizophrenia.

But he recalled being gripped by its use of ghosts, given the haunting quality of war, and by the all-but-undiagnosed presence of post-traumatic stress disorder afflicting most of the characters.

The disorder afflicting the defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, stems from "his treatment while in C.I.A. custody" after his capture and could render him unable to assist in his legal defense, the psychologist said.

Working until the time of her death as director of the Movement Disorders and Molecular Psychiatry Division of the Nathan Kline Institute, Dr. Richardson saw her life's work come to fruition in 2002 with the release of a medical treatment she created for Tardive Dyskinesia, a stigmatizing disorder afflicting some of the most severely ill psychiatric patients.