Siri Hustvedt

I have not been diagnosed with epilepsy. I did have an MRI of the brain, and they found no abnormalities in my brain. Now, there are people with epilepsy who have completely normal MRI's, too. I just think also, you know, epileptic seizures can be triggered by emotional stress, by all kinds of things, lights.

American Novelist

Kathy Giusti

Although not yet routine, many cancer centers have the technology to sequence some or all of a patient's cancer genome. This can provide massive amounts of valuable information about your cancer, including whether you have genetic mutations and other abnormalities for which new drugs are available.

American Activist

Harold E. Varmus

I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.

American Scientist

Octavia E. Butler

The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.

American Writer

Faith Salie

Despite amazing advances in fertility to help older women get pregnant, the complications, increased chances of autism, and chromosomal abnormalities are significant considerations.

American Journalist

Pope Shenouda III

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

Egyptian Clergyman

Timothy Simons

I was born tall. I was awkward and gangly. Before that, I was a really chubby elementary school kid. I've always been sort of a physical abnormality.

American Actor

H. P. Lovecraft

Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

George Santayana

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Spanish Philosopher

Itzhak Perlman

An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.

Israeli Musician

Used to describe behaviors or situations that differ from the socially accepted norm.

Common Usage

Can describe unique traits that are not necessarily bad, just uncommon.

Not Negative Always

What's abnormal in one culture might be normal in another; use with awareness of cultural differences.

Cultural Sensitivity

Often used in a medical context to indicate something needing professional attention.

Medical Concern

A medical abnormality signifies a deviation from typical health conditions, possibly affecting well-being.

Impacts Health

In psychology, abnormality can refer to atypical thought patterns, emotions, or behaviors.

Behavior Focus

An abnormality doesn't always mean a psychological issue; it could be a one-time occurrence.

Not Always Disorder

 Aw, come on now, let's not get carried away. But now we do have some testable hypotheses. I'd put money on its aggression and memory problems being linked to abnormalities in its amygdala and hippocampus, respectively. Great! So all we need to do now is figure out how to experimentally test this.

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 though it may be more prevalent and disproportionately affect the experiences of underrepresented or disadvantaged groups. To call it a syndrome is to downplay how universal it is. It's not a disease or an abnormality, and it isn’t necessarily tied to depression, anxiety, or self-esteem.

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 In reality, it's a complex problem. For example, the brain's amygdala is involved in thinking, long-term memory, and emotional processing. In this brain region, factors as varied as genetics and social trauma may create abnormalities and trigger the symptoms of bipolar disorder.

What is bipolar...

 Learning to frame the question in such a way as to elicit the information that we need to do our jobs, is a critical life skill. Like the radiologist who told me that looking at the negative spaces in a painting helped her discern more discreet abnormalities in an MRI.

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 Other work flowed from these studies. The first was that sleep disruption actually precedes certain types of mental illness, and we've shown that in those young individuals who are at high risk of developing bipolar disorder, they already have a sleep abnormality

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 has actually helped quite a lot. But still, my patients run out of minutes, and their phones get disconnected. Low-income people often have to move around a lot by necessity. I remember reviewing a chart of a woman with an abnormality on her mammogram.

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 There's another way that orgasm might boost fertility. This one involves men. Sperm that sit around in the body for a week or more start to develop abnormalities that make them less effective at head-banging their way into the egg.

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 and physical abnormalities and death. And the idea that we're just animals can be really unsettling, because it can be this reminder of our own mortality. And that can leave many of us with this deep existential angst.

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 The increasing adoption of routine screening will raise the What do we call a disease that can rationalize treatment, and what is just an abnormality that should not be a source of concern?

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 and hormone abnormalities, such as high cortisol and deregulation of thyroid hormones. But neuroscientists still don't have a complete picture of what causes depression.

Abnormality