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... Science , Space , and Technology ; Veteran Affairs ; and the Senate Subcommittee on Science , Technology , and Space of the Committee on Commerce , Science , and Transportation requested this study . The study was endorsed by Senator ...
... Science , Space , and Technology ; Veteran Affairs ; and the Senate Subcommittee on Science , Technology , and Space of the Committee on Commerce , Science , and Transportation requested this study . The study was endorsed by Senator ...
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... Sciences University Portland , OR Robert H. Blank University of Canterbury Christchurch , New Zealand James F. Childress Department of Religious Studies University of Virginia Charlottesville , VA Fred H. Gage Department of Neuroscience ...
... Sciences University Portland , OR Robert H. Blank University of Canterbury Christchurch , New Zealand James F. Childress Department of Religious Studies University of Virginia Charlottesville , VA Fred H. Gage Department of Neuroscience ...
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Roger C. Herdman, Assistant Director, OTA Health and L&e Sciences Division Michael Gough, Biological Applications Program Manager David R. Liskowsky, Project Director, New Developments in Neuroscience Laura Lee Hall, Study Director Sema ...
Roger C. Herdman, Assistant Director, OTA Health and L&e Sciences Division Michael Gough, Biological Applications Program Manager David R. Liskowsky, Project Director, New Developments in Neuroscience Laura Lee Hall, Study Director Sema ...
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... Sciences , Fiscal Years 1988-92 . 1-9 . Funding of the Division of Clinical Research , Fiscal Years 1980-92 Table Tables 1-1 . Prevalence of Severe Mental Disorders 1-2 . Obsessions and Compulsions . . . 1-3 . Comparison of Costs and ...
... Sciences , Fiscal Years 1988-92 . 1-9 . Funding of the Division of Clinical Research , Fiscal Years 1980-92 Table Tables 1-1 . Prevalence of Severe Mental Disorders 1-2 . Obsessions and Compulsions . . . 1-3 . Comparison of Costs and ...
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... Science Foundation; National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, National Aeronau- tics and Space ... Sciences; U.S. Department of Defense; DOE National Institute on Drug Abuse; National Institutes of Health; National ...
... Science Foundation; National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, National Aeronau- tics and Space ... Sciences; U.S. Department of Defense; DOE National Institute on Drug Abuse; National Institutes of Health; National ...
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Page 55 - Five (or more) of the following symptoms have been present during the same 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is either (1 ) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure.
Page 64 - It cannot be established that an organic factor initiated and maintained the disturbance...
Page 55 - In children and adolescents, can be irritable mood. 2) markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day...
Page 55 - Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day 5 Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day (observable by others, not merely subjective feelings of restlessness or being slowed down) 6 Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day 7 Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt (which may be delusional) nearly every day (not merely self-reproach or guilt about being sick...
Page 55 - The mood disturbance is sufficiently severe to cause marked impairment in occupational functioning or in usual social activities or relationships with others, or to necessitate hospitalization to prevent harm to self or others, or there are psychotic features.
Page 9 - It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil trick played upon the sick brain by the inhabiting psyche, comes to resemble the diabolical discomfort of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. And because no breeze stirs this caldron, because there is no escape from this smothering confinement, it is entirely natural that the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion.
Page 62 - B. At some point during the course of the disorder, the person has recognized that the obsessions or compulsions are excessive or unreasonable.
Page 54 - It was not really alarming at first, since the change was subtle, but I did notice that my surroundings took on a different tone at certain times: the shadows of nightfall seemed more somber, my mornings were less buoyant, walks in the woods became less zestful...
Page 55 - During the period of mood disturbance, three (or more) of the following symptoms have persisted (four if the mood is only irritable) and have been present to a significant degree: 1 . Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity 2.
Page 55 - A. At least five of the following symptoms have been present during the same two-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is either: 1) depressed mood, or 2) loss of interest or pleasure.