Sentence examples for due to a dysfunction from inspiring English sources

In 1866, the Frenchman Bénédict-Augustin Morel suggested severe anxiety was due to a dysfunction in the autonomic nervous system; others followed his lead and set out to examine problems in the brain, heart and lungs.

He also proposed the hypothesis that cancer is caused by cells whose division processes were deregulated due to a dysfunction of the chromosomes.

We suggest that schizophrenia patients' deficits in audiovisual integration during speech perception are due to a dysfunction of the speech motor system in the right hemisphere.

For instance, a reduction of 80% of seed oil content was found due to a dysfunction of carbohydrate metabolism, especially for the transformation of sucrose and glucose into lipid in wrinke 1 mutant (Focks and Benning 1998).

They suggested that the deficits in TBI may be due to a dysfunction in the "predictive brain state", part of which could be attributed to cerebellar dysfunction.

We next investigated whether the lower ATP synthesis rates and cellular ATP levels in the patient samples were due to a dysfunction of respiratory chain enzymes.

In this previous study, hCG was not measured : whether low hCG values due to a dysfunctioning placenta could have also contributed to cryptorchidism is therefore unknown.

In the present study, we excluded preterm birth as well as complicated pregnancy, and AFP levels were similar between cases and controls: we believe that the normal AFP levels indicated a normal fetoplacental unit, thus suggesting that the lower hCG values were not due to a dysfunctioning placenta.

Therefore, this pattern of symptoms seemed similar to what is seen in restless leg syndrome (RLS), a condition secondary due to a dopaminergic dysfunction of the central nervous system.

The present functional imaging results suggest that developmental dyslexia similar to acquired letter-by-letter reading is due to a primary dysfunction of left OT regions.

The need for an increased amount of handling to keep the R6/2 mice active as the experiment progressed may be due to a developing dysfunction in their circadian rhythms.