Sentence examples for marked deficits from inspiring English sources

Relative to healthy birder controls, the patient showed marked deficits of bird call and bird name knowledge but relatively preserved knowledge of avian visual attributes and retained knowledge of human voices and faces.

By contrast, several recent EEG studies exploring brain activity during sleep have established marked deficits in sleep spindles in schizophrenia, including first-episode and early-onset patients, compared to both healthy and psychiatric comparison subjects.

The marked deficits in social conduct, decision-making, and emotional processing in participants with unilateral right VMPC lesions are reminiscent in kind of those that have been reported in connection with bilateral VMPC lesions, albeit perhaps of lesser severity.

Corresponding to known fMRI and DTI abnormalities, cocaine and methamphetamine abusers also have shown marked deficits in decision-making processes [1], [2], [32], [33].

Circadian disruptions through frequent transmeridian travel, rotating shift work, and poor sleep hygiene are associated with an array of physical and mental health maladies, including marked deficits in human cognitive function.

We also show that thrombospondin 1 (TSP-1), an astrocyte-secreted protein, possesses a potent modulatory effect on spine number and morphology, and that both DS brains and DS astrocytes exhibit marked deficits in TSP-1 protein expression.

It had been obvious for some time that the overseas trade figures, which record the total cost of imports and the value of exports, are in marked deficit.

If you want to talk money, if the centres were closed there would be a budget saving of billions of dollars a year – and that is substantial at a time of marked deficit.

The intermontane basins stretching from southern British Columbia to central Mexico exhibit a strikingly unequal pattern, with areas of water surplus in the mountains lying adjacent to areas of marked deficit in the basins.

In a time when there seems to be a marked deficit in attention being paid to something as simple -- and yet mysterious -- as the way a "good house" can nurture a family, Burnard reminds us that patience may well be its cornerstone.

ITC lesions caused a marked deficit in the expression of extinction that correlated negatively with the number of surviving ITC neurons (Likhtik et al., 2008).