disorder
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The particular regions involved may depend on the nature of the sleep disorder.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
Reports suggest a crowd of approximately 50 people were launching fireworks and causing disorder.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Genetics are known to play a major role, but researchers have also found that conditions during pregnancy can influence the likelihood of autism spectrum disorder.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
The company has for years been weighed down by a series of crises over the recall of its DreamStation machines for sleep apnoea, a disorder in which breathing stops and starts during sleep.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
In other words, he was certain that William had what we now call bipolar disorder.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Sleep disorders may have consequences that extend far beyond fatigue.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
An estimated 50 million to 70 million Americans experience sleep disorders, making them a major public health concern.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
Although researchers are actively developing CAR NK cell therapies for cancer and autoimmune disorders, none have received FDA approval.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
Additional research will be necessary to determine whether the same cellular mechanisms operate in humans and whether separating brain rewiring from psychedelic effects can produce effective treatments for depression, PTSD, or other psychiatric disorders.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
The medical literature of this and other countries contains many significant cases that support Dr. Hargraves’ belief in a cause-and-effect relation between these chemicals and leukemia and other blood disorders.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Bossy’s direction raises the clamorous volume instead of sorting out the disordered structure or digging into the unexamined silences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Rather than understanding dissociation as a symptom of disordered eating, researchers increasingly consider how it may both emerge from and help maintain these patterns.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
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
Light can be disordered in one characteristic, such as the directions in which it travels, while still creating photons that are entangled through another characteristic, such as polarization.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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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