Sentence examples for psychiatric rather than from inspiring English sources

The report said that more than half of those were classified as "psychogenic", meaning the dysfunction was related to psychiatric rather than physical causes.

The group settled on "chronic fatigue syndrome" — the use of "syndrome" rather than "disease" suggested a psychiatric rather than physical origin and would thus discourage public panic and prevent insurers from having to make "chronic disbursements," as one of the academics joked.

In recent months, headlines out of western New York have described a group of more than a dozen female high school students who experienced uncontrollable tics and other movements, which many experts now believe are manifestations of a "contagious" psychiatric, rather than neurological, disorder.

Although dementia is a core clinical feature, most studies have focused on the neurological and psychiatric, rather than the specifically cognitive, signs and symptoms.

In conclusion, in addition to its variable age of onset, relatively high level of severity, and unclear preventive options, clinical depression is characterised by its psychiatric rather than somatic nature.

Classifying dementing illnesses (Alzheimer's, frontotemporal and dementia in Parkinson's Disease) as psychiatric rather than neurological did not change the overall pattern of results; however, it did result in noticeable changes throughout the temporal cortex.

Mijailo Mijailovic, left, convicted of stabbing Foreign Minister Anna Lindh to death in 2003 and sentenced to psychiatric care rather than prison, has been charged with assaulting a fellow patient at the psychiatric clinic in Sundsvall last year, a prosecutor said.

In the main analyses, we excluded men whose cancer registration pre-dated their first psychiatric admission to allow for the possibility of reverse causality, that is, less favourable cancer prognosis leading to a psychiatric admission rather than the converse.

Surely these are best handled in psychiatric institutions rather than prison.

The initial evidence would seem to point to a psychiatric case rather than a well-planned terrorist attack.

In several cases, they succeeded in defusing emotionally disturbed people who were armed and threatening violence, prodding them into psychiatric care rather than prison.