Over the course of Michael's education career, he received some help, such as a class with other students with mood disorders in which he worked on communicating and controlling his behavior.
Neuroses, or psychoneuroses, are less-serious disorders in which people may experience negative feelings such as anxiety or depression.
Foods like Cinnabons and Starbucks' Strawberries & Crème Frappuccinos are, he maintains, like drugs: "Conditioned hypereating works the same way as other 'stimulus response' disorders in which reward is involved, such as compulsive gambling and substance abuse".
Consider the lipodystrophy diseases, rare metabolic disorders in which the body lacks fat tissue and instead dumps its energy overruns in that jack-of-all-organs, the liver, causing extreme liver swelling, liver failure and sometimes liver-bearer death.
Dr. Schmid's work in hepatology began in the 1950s with studies of porphyrias, a group of disorders in which enzymes of the heme, contained in the hemoglobin, are disrupted.
This can be caused by an infection or diseases like ulcerative colitis or Crohn's, autoimmune disorders in which the white blood cells that are supposed to protect the body from invading pathogens mistakenly attack completely normal cells.
Furthermore, there are many disorders in which there is a familial tendency to develop the disease but no formal pattern of inheritance has been delineated.
Breakdown in perceptual constancy seems to complicate the course of some psychiatric disorders in which the perceptual boundary between the sufferer and the external world is weakened.
Ischemic neuropathies are those disorders in which nerve compression leads to decreased blood supply and subsequent damage to the Schwann cells.
The thalassemias are another group of inherited disorders in which one or more of the polypeptide chains of globin are synthesized defectively.
