The diagnostic term for this common and perplexing condition is "functional abdominal pain": recurrent stomachaches, as the American Academy of Pediatrics put it in 2005, with no "anatomic, metabolic, infectious, inflammatory or neoplastic disorder" to explain them.
"In principle, looking to a brain disorder to explain attention deficits should be the last possible explanation," Honos-Webb said in an email to The Huffington Post.
Mortensen's Ben is an unconventional father, happy to frankly discuss everything: from his wife's bipolar disorder to explaining what a penis is to his youngest on-screen daughter.
Such approaches are focused on fundamental processes underlying different disorders, helping to explain comorbidity among disorders, and leading to more effective assessment and treatment strategies.
This study identifies interesting candidate pathways that may play important roles in the migration of the embryonic thyroid and provides a prototype approach for the study of congenital disorders difficult to explain by classical genetics.
Theories regarding the role of recurrent negative thinking in emotional disorders need to explain two features.
The insight in the podocyte function obtained from the study of these genetic disorders will help to explain the effect of medication used in the treatment of glomerular disorders.
I was diagnosed with schizophrenia nine months ago, after a slew of other diagnoses depression, generalized anxiety, anorexia, borderline personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychotic disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, conversion disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and bipolar disorder failed to explain the complexity of my symptoms.
Identification of the genes involved in each disorder has helped to explain why the various conditions have similar manifestations.
The "hygiene hypothesis," that reduced childhood exposure to microorganisms modifies polarized Th1/Th2 responses leading to more allergic disorders, has been proposed to explain this increase [2].
