Translation of "Etiology " (English → French) :

causative agent | causal agent | etiological agent | etiologic agent | disease agent | agent | causative factor | causal factor | etiologic factor | etiological factor

etiologic | aetiologic | etiological | aetiological

Definition: A disorder characterized by impairment of memory, learning difficulties, and reduced ability to concentrate on a task for more than brief periods. There is often a marked feeling of mental fatigue when mental tasks are attempted, and new learning is found to be subjectively difficult even when objectively successful. None of these symptoms is so severe that a diagnosis of either dementia (F00-F03) or delirium (F05.-) can be made. This diagnosis should be made only in association with a specified physical disorder, and should not be made in the presence of any of the mental or behavioural disorders classified to F10-F99. The disorder may precede, accompany, or follow a wide variety of infections and physical disorders, both cereb ...[+++]ral and systemic, but direct evidence of cerebral involvement is not necessarily present. It can be differentiated from postencephalitic syndrome (F07.1) and postconcussional syndrome (F07.2) by its different etiology, more restricted range of generally milder symptoms, and usually shorter duration.

Definition: An etiologically nonspecific organic cerebral syndrome characterized by concurrent disturbances of consciousness and attention, perception, thinking, memory, psychomotor behaviour, emotion, and the sleep-wake schedule. The duration is variable and the degree of severity ranges from mild to very severe. | acute or subacute:brain syndrome | confusional state (nonalcoholic) | infective psychosis | organic reaction | psycho-organic syndrome

Definition: Alzheimer's disease is a primary degenerative cerebral disease of unknown etiology with characteristic neuropathological and neurochemical features. The disorder is usually insidious in onset and develops slowly but steadily over a period of several years.

Multifactorial etiology

Etiologic fraction

etiologic agent [ causal agent | causative agent ]

Fifth, we need more research on the etiology and genetics of mental conditions.

The first area has to do with changing the etiology of the causes of mental illness — in other words, taking action to alleviate social disadvantage and social inequality which, as you well know, are important population health determinants.

Our focus is to understand the disorder, the etiology and the prognosis, and often there is very active work on problem-solving skills.

That overall dietary patterns may be more relevant than specific foods in the etiology of diet-related diseases; healthy dietary patterns are characterised by high consumption of fruits and vegetables, consumption of fish and by giving preference to low-fat dairy, whole grains, lean meat and poultry and using vegetable oils as replacement of solid fats where possible, as in the Mediterranean diet or any other diets, following relevant national dietary guidelines/nutrition recommendations;