Premorbid

The benefit of this study is that “by being able to predict more accurately which carriers may express the disease before they experience symptoms (the "premorbid" state), researchers could test medicines that might prevent symptoms from emerging.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

The benefit of this study is that “by being able to predict more accurately which carriers may express the disease before they experience symptoms the "premorbid" state, researchers could test medicines that might prevent symptoms from emerging.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

“It cannot be denied that his… premorbid personality resulted in increasing the amount of his own work.” ❋ Ethan Watters (2010)

However, we at least do know something about her premorbid belief system, and it might be appropriate to use that as a guideline for whether people who now are speaking on her behalf are respecting how she lived her life previously. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The very fact that she wanted me to assess the premorbid psychology of the two girls argued against her having much faith in the serial-killer theory. ❋ White, Stephen, 1951- (2000)

First, it is clear to all of us on the committee that screens new cases that too little is known about the premorbid history of these two girls. ❋ White, Stephen, 1951- (2000)

Most investigators believe that schizophrenia develops from complex interactions between a premorbid vulnerability and a process that damages the central nervous system. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

These patients tend to have good premorbid personalities and relatively good outcomes. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

Studies 484 suggest that this late-onset group has premorbid function, symptomatology, and course consistent with the concept of late paraphrenia. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

Reactivity of mood, hypochondriasis, significant features of anxiety, and premorbid anxious and fearful personality traits are cited as predictors of a poor response. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

The psychiatric history documented a pattern of progressive mental deterioration including delusions of persecution and probable auditory hallucinations combined with evidence of a premorbid schizoid or borderline personality type. ❋ Jonathan Kellerman (1987)

Writing from a physiological perspective, Bean (1981), Vaillant (1981), and Zinburg (1982) contended that premorbid and morbid personality studies of alcoholics do not consistently demonstrate the presence of a borderline or narcissistic character disorder and that seeming borderline or narcissistic behaviors are the result of regression due to the effects of alcohol on ego operations. ❋ Judith Marks Mishne (1986)

When possible, parental contact is generally useful in determining why help is sought now, the history of the presenting complaints, premorbid functioning, and early history; It also provides clarity about the emotional tone and course of events in family life. ❋ Judith Marks Mishne (1986)

Pattison 1984 noted that this perspective is compatible with much neuropsychological data on long and short decline of ego functions or data that examines abstaining alcoholics but appears to ignore premorbid ego deficits and character disorders in some alcoholics. ❋ Judith Marks Mishne (1986)