disorder
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In the years after, close to 20 percent struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
In a summary of the meeting, the Home Office said the protests brought "unacceptable disorder".
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The findings suggest that GLP-1 signaling could help protect the brain by reducing inflammation, cellular stress, and other biological processes associated with bipolar disorder.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
From this welter of disorder, Ms. Mandel seamlessly engineers a pair of convoluted, Rube Goldberg-style plots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Because it seemed like it should be a good thing, that I didn’t have that long-word-x reading disorder, that my brain didn’t mix up letters and numbers on the page.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
The new rules would also require tech companies to protect under 18s from harmful content that promotes or encourages eating disorders or hostile ideas about women and gender equality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Previous research has connected PDE5i medications with several types of eye problems, including disorders involving the optic nerve and the macula, which is the area of the retina responsible for detailed central vision.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
It may also have potential as a supportive, non-pharmacological approach in clinical settings, particularly for conditions such as anxiety disorders or depression, which can involve disrupted autonomic regulation and altered responses to reward.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Bristol-Myers Squibb BMY 0.35%increase; up pointing triangle said that it had paused similar trials of its CAR-T treatment in autoimmune disorders as a precautionary measure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
This sort of evidence — and no more — forms the basis of a vast amount of medical therapy in many other disorders.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Dr Neil Stanley, sleep expert and author of the book How to Sleep Well, argues that gamifying sleep is creating more disordered sleeping.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Treating the light classically makes it much easier to define which part of the energy can be used to perform work and which part is disordered heat," says Janovitch.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
As a psychiatrist, he was mindful of the whole person who was suffering—not merely a disordered brain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Like all grieving, it is complicated and disordered, and beautifully so.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
The universe would have started in a smooth and ordered state, and would become lumpy and disordered as time went on.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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The researchers then expose the cilia to a damped, alternating magnetic field which has the effect of disordering the magnetization of the microparticles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
The economic and social troubles of 1993 rippled through my community, as these things do, disordering the trajectories of lives and industries to the ruin of some.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
But there will be many pairs of events that are causally related, that will end up far from each other—thus disordering space and locality.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 4, 2019
Furthermore, disordering the ligand distribution drastically increases adhesion growth, but reduces the rigidity threshold for adhesion collapse.
From Nature ● Dec. 5, 2017
But the vapour of a limekiln would come between me and them, disordering them all, and it was through the vapour at last that I saw two men looking at me.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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