comorbid
(adjective)
Occurring at the same time as another disease or symptom.
Examples of comorbid in the following topics:
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Introduction to Biomedical Therapies
- For example, studies comparing an antidepressant to a placebo may use an eight-week double-blind parallel design and include subjects with major depression, but without any other medical or psychiatric comorbidities.
- Effectiveness studies, on the other hand, are often larger, naturalistic studies that attempt to approximate "real-world" conditions by studying patients who may have psychiatric and medical comorbidities and by relying on broader outcome measures for assessing response.
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Cluster C: Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders
- Various medications may also be used to treat comorbid (co-occurring) disorders, such as depression or anxiety.
- Some, but not all, studies have found high comorbidity rates between the two disorders, and both may share outside similarities (for example, rigid and ritual-like behaviors).
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Abnormal Psychology
- The diagnostic manual includes a total of 237 specific diagnosable disorders, each described in detail, including its symptoms, prevalence, risk factors, and comorbidity.
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- A particular challenge in treating GAD is its high comorbidity with other disorders, such as depression and substance abuse; it can be difficult in therapy to make progress with multiple issues simultaneously.
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Feeding Disorders
- However, many have proposed other mental disorders that are comorbid with ARFID—indeed, symptoms of ARFID are usually found with symptoms of other disorders.
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Classifying Abnormal Behavior: The DSM
- Many diagnoses are so similar that there is a high rate of comorbidity between disorders.
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Cluster A: Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal Personality Disorders
- STPD is rarely seen as a primary reason for treatment in a clinical setting, but it has high rates of comorbidity with other mental disorders (i.e., it is often part of a dual diagnosis of STPD and a second disorder).
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Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders
- The disorder itself is not easily characterized and often exhibits comorbidity with other mood disorders, particularly bipolar disorder.
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Dissociative Disorders
- Medications can be used for comorbid (co-occurring) disorders and/or targeted symptom relief.
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Eating Disorders
- Some of the treatment methods include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), family therapy, nutritional counseling, and medication to treat comorbid (co-occurring) disorders (such as anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, etc.).