Sentences with phrase «adult schizophrenia»

Research indicates that marriage and family therapy is as effective as, and in some cases more effective than, standard and / or individual treatments for many mental health problems such as: adult schizophrenia, affective (mood) disorders, adult alcoholism and drug abuse, children's conduct disorders, adolescent drug abuse, anorexia in young adult women, childhood autism, chronic physical illness in adults and children, and marital distress and conflict.

Research indicates that marriage and family therapy is as effective, and in some cases more effective than standard and / or individual treatments for many mental health problems such as: adult schizophrenia, affective (mood) disorders, adult alcoholism and drug abuse, children's conduct disorders, adolescent drug abuse, anorexia in young adult women, childhood autism, chronic physical illness in adults and children, and marital distress and conflict.

Late onset adult schizophrenia, the diagnostic manual calls it.

Not exact matches

There are no telethons for schizophrenia, although 2.2 million adults in America are afflicted, compared with the 250,000 who live with muscular dystrophy, another incurable disease.

Some adult problems also have their roots in stage one — alcoholism, schizophrenia, manic - depressive mood swings, excessive smoking, criticizing, and suspiciousness.

Dr. McCoy and colleagues used the method to characterize 3,619 adults with psychiatric hospitalizations across a range of disorders, including schizophrenia, anxiety, major depressive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder.

Zolpidem enhanced the process, a discovery that could lead to new sleep therapies to improve memory for aging adults and those with dementia, Alzheimer's and schizophrenia.

Indeed, low birth weight, a marker of impaired fetal development, is associated with increased everyday levels of inflammatory markers as well as greater risks of heart disease, diabetes, depression and schizophrenia in adults.

Risperidone is used to treat various psychiatric disorders in adults and children, including autism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, and prescribing rates for children have increased nearly eight-fold over the last two decades.

Virologist Robert Yolken of Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore and psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, have long argued that each of these factors may stimulate infectious agents that could provoke individuals to develop schizophrenia as adults.

Fish oil supplements have been investigated as a treatment for adults with schizophrenia, but so far results have been mixed — four trials found no benefit while another four found a small reduction in symptoms.

Although exercise has been shown to be an effective treatment for people with long - term schizophrenia, no studies have assessed its effects on psychiatric symptoms in young adults with early psychosis, until now.

Two years later, the team received funding for a larger - scale investigation, evaluating a whole suite of social skills in 54 individuals with schizophrenia, 54 with autism and average intelligence quotients (IQ) and 56 typical adults.

Eack is trying to work «trans - diagnostically» to adapt an existing therapy for adults with schizophrenia to help those with autism.

But at least one mental malady, while common in humans, seems to have spared other animals: schizophrenia, which affects an estimated 0.4 to 1 percent of adults.

Appleton Self - pay, longer - term residential care for adults ages 18 and older who have schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or persistent psychiatric illness.

Similar to what is found in adults with schizophrenia, for the subgroup of subjects with pre-illness scores, there was an initial steep decline in IQ, from about 2 years prior to 1.7 years after onset of psychotic symptoms.

She also collaborates on several other projects examining the influence of immune molecules on prenatal brain development and their role in the genesis of schizophrenia, major depression, and cardiovascular disease in adults.

al (2002) hypothesized that among high - risk individuals (or people whose mothers were diagnosed with schizophrenia), individuals who had experienced negative relationships with their parents would be more likely to develop schizophrenia as an adult.

Dr. Rapoport was a pioneer in studying the pathophysiology of ADHD and neuropharmacological approaches to its treatment, and she was the first to discover that some childhood psychiatric symptoms result from autoimmune reactions to streptococcal infection, the first to establish the link between obsessive - compulsive behaviors in children and OCD in adults, and the first to use longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging to uncover developmental abnormalities in brain size and structure in children with schizophrenia.

Moreover, risk factors may be different for different individuals - while one person may develop schizophrenia due largely to a strong family history of mental illness (e.g. a high level of genetic risk), someone else with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the disease due to a more significant combination of prepregnancy factors, pregnancy stress, other prenatal factors, social stress, family stress or environmental factors that they experience during their childhood, teen or early adult years.

There are other options for adults with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, but they don't always do the trick.

Giving fish oils to adults diagnosed with schizophrenia has not produced good results — it appears the key is to give fish oil to youth before it's too late, thus changing the trajectory of the disease.

For example, a child with autism often is hyperactive and dyspraxic or a young adult with schizophrenia would often suffer from dyslexia, dyspraxia or / and ADHD / ADD in childhood.

As Nadine, who watches her best friend and twin brother hook up and couple off, Steinfeld nails the schizophrenia of the age, part kid, part adult, total mess, promising human.

No laughing matter, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter stars Rinko Kikuchi as a Tokyo office worker suffering from undiagnosed young - adult - onset schizophrenia, who undertakes a journey to Minnesota to find the money she saw buried in the snow in the Coen Brothers» Fargo.

Filmed over 18 months, this moving documentary tells the story of Puhi, an elderly woman charged with caring for her adult son, Niki, who suffers from schizophrenia, in the isolated area of... See full summary»

TCP's withdrawal of its nominations and stockholder proposal follows Vanda's announcement that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration had granted marketing approval of its product, Fanapt ™ (iloperidone), for the acute treatment of adult patients with schizophrenia.

Martin's extreme desire for order on the canvas can possibly be traced back to her schizophrenia, from which she suffered throughout her adult life.

It is not until the fifth room of the new Agnes Martin retrospective at Tate Modern, London, that the viewer discovers the artist struggled with schizophrenia throughout her adult life.

It is indicated for use to treat schizophrenia in adults and kids, irritability in children between the ages of 5 and 16, autism, and bipolar disorder in adults and children, ages 10 to 17.

Social Worker — Duties & Responsibilities Successfully serve as a psychiatric social worker and practice manager for multiple institutions Perform crisis intervention, adult, geriatric, child, and adolescent case management and therapy Counsel patients facing depression, substance abuse, bipolar disorder, dementia, and schizophrenia Serve survivors of domestic violence, rape, robbery, child abuse, suicide, and other traumatic events Responsible for 24 hour on call crisis intervention for multiple hospital emergency rooms Complete psychosocial assessments to ensure appropriate patient diagnosis and care Design and implement treatment plans including medication and individual / group / family therapy sessions Attend weekly team meetings to assess patient progress and document in the DAP system Review psychometric and psychological reports and provide feedback to patients and families Provide clients and family members with guidance and referrals to community resources Maintain contact with family members and encouraged their involvement in patient treatment Performed discharge planning including nursing home placement, home health, medication needs, transportation and Passport screening, extended in - patient and out - patient mental health services Serve as public speaker, referral development committee member, and marketing / financial advisor

«I work with adults with a variety of issues which include depression, anxiety, bipolar and schizophrenia disorders.

My areas of expertise include children, adolescents, families, and adults struggling with a wide range of mental health disorders including depression, anxiety, PTSD, and schizophrenia to name a few.

In mid 2010, we collated data on all adult Indigenous patients in the region who where either symptomatic or in remission and receiving treatment for a psychotic disorder falling within the following International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision groups: organic - related (F06); substance use - related (F10 — 19); schizophrenia - related (F20 — 22); acute and transient psychoses (F23); and mood disorder - related (F25, F30 — 33).

Abel, K. M., 2010, Birth weight, schizophrenia, and adult mental disorder: is risk confined to the smallest babies?

Participants were adults, aged 18 to 75 years, with nonpsychotic major depressive disorder (baseline score on the 17 - item Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression15, 16 [HRSD] ≥ 14) and without a lifetime diagnosis of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or schizoaffective disorders.

I have a special interest in working with at - risk adolescents, young adults, and the families of individuals affected by depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, adjustment disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and school behavioral and / or academic concerns.

I enjoy working with adults and adolescents who have been hospitalized psychiatrically, schizophrenia / other psychotic disorders, or have codependency issues / experienced abusive relationships.»

1493 adults with schizophrenia (DSM - IV), aged 18 — 65 years.

Distinctions based on age of onset have proven important for understanding heterogeneity within attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder51 and antisocial disorder, 52,53 in which childhood onset has worse implications for course, recurrence, familial transmission, and treatment resistance.54 Research on schizophrenia is also benefiting from a focus on childhood neurodevelopmental processes55 and juvenile - onset symptoms.56 The present study and others1 illustrate that the distinction between juvenile vs adult - onset MDD is important for understanding heterogeneity within depression as well.

Negative symptoms are prevalent in antipsychotic - treated adult outpatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders

«In a psychotherapy career spanning nearly 43 years, I have worked with diverse populations of clients, including adolescents, the adult mentally ill, and those with schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, serious mental illness, and substance abuse both in residential treatment programs and community mental health outpatient clinics.

She has successfully worked with children, adolescents, and adults struggling with a wide range of emotional and psychological issues such as anxiety, depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, eating disorders, substance abuse, relationship problems, parenting difficulties, stress, and trauma.

I have seen adult women who experienced severe trauma in early childhood being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, Bipolar, BPD, ED, ADHD, and other self harming behaviors of suicide, self mutilation, DID, and SUD.

She specializes in the psychological treatment of adults, specifically, the treatment of depression and severe mental illness, including schizophrenia and chronic depressive disorder.

For example, while irritability and aggressiveness can indicate bipolar disorder, they also can be symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, or other types of mental disorders more common among adults such as major depression or schizophrenia.

She also has experience working with adults diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar, and personality disorders.