biological marker

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It should be emphasized that treating biological markers as subordinate to behavioral symptoms makes little sense scientifically.
One approach to overcoming these problems is the use of intermediate phenotypes, or biological markers.
Thus, research efforts have aimed at pinpointing biological markers to facilitate early diagnosis and intervention.
In the mean time, basic science researchers are in the best position to identify biological markers(s) for early diagnosis.
Therefore, future use of genetic or biological markers will be dependent on understanding the relative degree of contribution from many different biological risk processes.
Nevertheless, behavioral syndromes are often used as the gold standard against which the validities of biological markers are judged.
Given this, it is curious that potential biological markers of depression and other psychiatric syndromes are often eschewed in favor of strictly behavioral criteria.
Indicated interventions focus on subpopulations who are already manifesting some signs, symptoms, or biological markers of disorder, but whose psychopathology is below the diagnostic threshold.
It should also be noted, however, that biological markers of vulnerability are rarely deterministic.
Further populationbased studies are needed to establish the combination of cognitive tests and biological markers with the highest predictive value.
The judge's decision shows law caught between two biological markers of race: blood and genes.
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