comorbidity

Examples of comorbidity in the following topics:

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• Classifying Abnormal Behavior: The DSM

  • Many diagnoses are so similar that there is a high rate of comorbidity between disorders.

• Eating Disorders

  • Some of the treatment methods include cognitive behavioral therapy (CMT), 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.).

• Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders

  • The disorder itself is not easily characterized and often exhibits comorbidity with other mood disorders, particularly bipolar disorder.

• Dissociative Disorders

  • Medications can be used for comorbid (co-occurring) disorders and/or targeted symptom relief.