maladaptive

At first glance, the behavior would seem to be maladaptive.

Unhappily, some of those frailties--our need for ever-increasing security among them--are presently maladaptive.

In adult life, many of these scripts are maladaptive and only serve to impoverish our experience and damage us and those we love.

Or maybe it really is maladaptive now, but is "the outcome of traits that were adaptive in ancestral environment, " said Abbott.

Evidence presented supports the notion that chronic pain is a maladaptive learned phenomenon.

It is emerging that NHE 1 also contributes to myocardial hypertrophy and heart failure due to chronic maladaptive stimulation.

Pressure overload stress elicits a robust autophagic response in cardiomyocytes that is maladaptive , contributing to disease progression.

The first step is to identify your maladaptive thought habits.

And in doing so, he created a system that perpetuates the maladaptive behavior on the Earth plane.

For them procrastination is a lifestyle, albeit a maladaptive one. And it cuts across all domains of their life.

coping with the negative stress , they tend to adopt maladaptive coping ways ;