Disorder of Differential Growth

Differential Diagnosis of Mental Disorder in Later

The problems raised by mental disorders of the elderly, already a serious social and medical issue, are likely to be aggravated in the future by the progressive increase, relative and absolute, in the numbers of the old in the population. The assumption in the past that most of the mental disorder of later life was due to organic brain damage led to an undue pessimism and for long obscured the ...

Differential attentional bias in generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder

BACKGROUND Cognitive theorists relate anxiety disorders to the way in which emotional information is processed. The existing research suggests that patients with anxiety disorders tend to allocate their attention toward threat-related information selectively, and this may differ among different types of anxious subjects. The aim of this study was to explore attentional bias in patients with gen...

Differential growth of wrinkled biofilms.

Biofilms are antibiotic-resistant bacterial aggregates that grow on moist surfaces and can trigger hospital-acquired infections. They provide a classical example in biology where the dynamics of cellular communities may be observed and studied. Gene expression regulates cell division and differentiation, which affect the biofilm architecture. Mechanical and chemical processes shape the resultin...

Psychogenic Pain Disorder--Differential Diagnosis and Treatment.

Fractal Growth with Quenched Disorder

In this lecture we present an overview of the physics of irreversible fractal growth process, with particular emphasis on a class of models characterized by quenched disorder. These models exhibit self-organization, with critical properties developing spontaneously, without the fine tuning of external parameters. This situation is different from the usual critical phenomena, and requires the in...