Doctors have spent decades using drugs to tweak aberrant brain chemicals, with only limited success.
But it does mean that far from being an aberrant behaviour, psychopathy may be disturbingly normal.
The drugs aim to remove aberrant protein clumps called amyloid plaques from the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
Rather than killing cancer cells, these drugs remove the aberrant methylation, reactivating genes which had been silenced.
The sandbox I like playing in the most is exactly where these odd and sometimes aberrant findings surface.
Hoping to snuff out aberrant individualism, the ministry introduced detailed rules governing uniforms, haircuts and codes of conduct.
My colleagues and I have studied some of these people and discovered interesting reasons for their aberrant behavior.
In a given year, a manager might never come across an example of a really aberrant management practice, a positive deviant.
"It's all the other fields that are aberrant, " she added, laughing.
This is particularly worrying in the light of work which shows that pathological behaviour in childhood is a good predictor of a lifetime of aberrant behaviour.
The result could be an understanding of whether the tactics and raid that claimed the life of Jose Guerena were aberrant, or standard practice in Pima County.
This suggests that those people with an aberrant form of the protein (the result of the defective gene) might be more resistant to herpes infection than their fellows.
The potential derailment of this now cherished memorial was in part due to an aberrant journalistic practice that lingers to this day, but may finally be getting its comeuppance.
Moving forward in this new era demands new skills, such as a more precise focus on aberrant or statistically significant data in a stream, as well as better tools.
The principal can limit divergences from his interest by establishing appropriate incentives for the agent and by incurring monitoring costs designed to limit the aberrant activities of the agent.
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For the longest time, no one seems alarmed by Buck's flagrantly dissociated, obviously aberrant behavior -- not Charlie, not his sophisticated fiancee, Carlyn (Beth Colt), not the little actor's mother.
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Add to these genuinely free media and a citizenry glued to news bulletins, and the result is a healthy cacophony that no aberrant government could silence without resort to force.
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Or rather, after an aberrant half century of industrial-scale McDonaldization of the global economy, the local food industry is actually reclaiming the bellwether status it has always had in history.
To a degree that surprised me, they liked to quiz me about text-book-aberrant behavior and about my unhappy childhood, thinking, once they heard the stories, that this was the way to my heart.
The one thing that seems aberrant for such a responsible child minder is Theresa's bizarre reluctance to bring it to the attention of an adult when her cousin, poor Daisy, blossoms day after day in vast, unexplained bruises.
The News Corporation may be hoping that it can get back to business now that some of the responsible parties have been held to account and that people will see the incident as an aberrant byproduct of the world of British tabloids.
Until recently, discussion about British Islam reflected an assumption shared by the government and its Muslim interlocutors: that extremism was alien to most British Muslims, and squeezing it out was a simple matter of finding the right words to explain that violent behaviour was an aberrant reading of Islam.
Oncologists will be able to take a single tumor cell from a cancer patient and determine within minutes or hours which aberrant genes are responsible for the cancer's growth, allowing them to customize therapy to the patient's particular genetic quirks, rather than having to guess which drugs might work best.
It is often said that there is no place like Puerto Rico, whose bitter war for independence against Spain ended in 1898 with an American invasion, whose occupation ushered in the American century but whose continued purgatory -- neither the 51st state, nor an independent country -- seems aberrant in the 21st.
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