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Self-harm is for example associated with eating disorders, [57] autism spectrum disorders, [58] [59] borderline personality disorder, dissociative disorders, bipolar disorder, [60] depression, [11] [61] phobias, [11] and conduct disorders. [62] As many as 70% of individuals with borderline personality disorder engage in self-harm. [63]
Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to use a drug or engage in a behavior that produces natural reward, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences.
Its symptoms include edema, wasting, liver enlargement, hypoalbuminaemia, and steatosis; the condition may also cause depigmentation of skin and hair. [11] The disorder is further identified by a characteristic swelling of the belly, and extremities which disguises the patient's undernourished condition. [58] '
This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. [1]A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".
As the symptoms of arsenic poisoning are not very specific, the substance was frequently used for murder until the advent in the 1830s of the Marsh test, a sensitive chemical test for its presence. (Another less sensitive but more general test is the Reinsch test.) Owing to its use by the ruling class to murder one another and its potency and ...