neurodevelopmental disorder

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Noun

neurodevelopmental disorder (countable and uncountable, plural neurodevelopmental disorders)

  1. (neurology, psychiatry) A group of mental conditions affecting the development of the nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord.
    • 2015 August 5, Michael O’Donovan, “Novel genetic advances in schizophrenia: an interview with Michael O’Donovan”, in BMC Medicine‎[1], volume 13, →DOI:
      This supports the broad hypothesis that many of the neurodevelopmental disorders are, to a certain extent, aetiologically linked.

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