Because psychiatric diseases predominantly affect cellular function in the brain, it can be hard to get a clear picture of exactly what is being affected at the molecular level.
Not exact matches
Understanding the basis of
psychiatric disorders has been extremely challenging
because there are many genetic variants that may increase risk but are insufficient to cause
disease.
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Because of this, the Core promotes interdisciplinary and translational research in behavioral neuroscience on a much broader scale, bringing researchers closer to better treatments for neurological and
psychiatric diseases.»
And that's a bad thing
because it can contribute to obesity, heart
disease,
psychiatric disorders, and some types of cancer.
They were brought to this long - abandoned
psychiatric hospital in the vast emptiness of Kansas
because they survived direct exposure to «the sickness,» a highly contagious
disease that is rampaging across the country, killing people in the tens of thousands.