chemical imbalance 

Behavioral health care professionals sometimes apply this term to mental disorders whose etiology or mechanism may involve imbalance of neurotransmitters. This term may be most likely associated with mental disorders effectively treated by drugs which appear to work by altering the balance of these brain chemicals.

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