Sentences with phrase «as schizophrenia and autism»

Finally, although the sample size is relatively large, it remains too small to study the incidence of disorders with a cumulative incidence in young adulthood of less than 1 % such as schizophrenia and autism.

«Many of the so - called psychological problems people are faced with today such as anxiety, depression, and even more serious conditions such as schizophrenia and autism are related to problems in the gut,» she says.

Being social animals, zebrafish are an interesting model for studying psychiatric disorders that affect social behavior, such as schizophrenia and autism.

Through the use of stem cell - based organoids researchers are making big strides in the study of neurodevelopmental diseases such as schizophrenia and autism.

Shreejoy Tripathy (DC» 13), a Ph.D. graduate in neural computation from the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition's (CNBC), is now a postdoc in the Pavlidis Lab at the University of British Columbia, studying neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and autism.

Disturbances in the functioning of this network, as well as various kind of infection and other triggers of a pregnant woman's immune response, have been linked to development of psychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders.

In humans, the cerebellum's extensive connectivity with the rest of the brain suggests it does far more than learn motor skills: it has been shown to have a part in both perception and cognition, with recent work linking cerebellar dysfunction to such complex diseases as schizophrenia and autism.

«Some neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and autism, are characterized by the abnormal development of synaptic connectivity in certain key parts of the brain,» explains Schneggenburger.

Upper layer neurons are also frequently affected in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and autism.

Future studies about romantic attachment will focus on using the findings from research such as Young's and Diamond's to develop new treatments for grief associated with partner separation or loss and for disorders that involve social deficits, such as schizophrenia and autism.

Neuroscientists think that conditions such as schizophrenia and autism stem from problems in neural connectivity.

Studies have identified an association between maternal infection and inflammation and preterm birth, in addition to the development of cerebral palsy and neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and autism.

Not exact matches

Childhood schizophrenia is rare and can be difficult to tell apart from other developmental disorders of childhood, such as autism.

But what of suggestions that A2 milk provides levels of protection from autism in children, as well as schizophrenia, diabetes and heart disease?

In addition to the new work's potential for RS, there is speculation that it could pave the way to treatments for other neurological disorders, such as learning disabilities, schizophrenia, autism and newborn encephalopathy as well as some mental retardation that has also been linked to the Mecp2 gene.

Osaka University researchers show in a multi-institute collaboration that a single amino acid substitution in the protein CX3CR1 may act as predictor for schizophrenia and autism

This discovery also explains why sensory interferences, including synesthesias and hallucinations, can occur in people suffering from neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism or schizophrenia.

In the heady postwar years, hundreds of promising studies were conducted in the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depression.

The scientists believe that immune proteins in the brain may be so significant that disruption during development might also contribute to such conditions as autism and schizophrenia.

Working with this hypothesis, the researchers conducted a statistical analysis of the CX3CR1 gene in over 7000 schizophrenia and autism patients and healthy subjects, finding one mutant candidate, a single amino acid switch from alanine to threonine, as a candidate marker for prediction.

A new multi-institutional study by Japanese researchers shows a potential rare gene mutation that could act as a predictor for two neurodevelopmental disorders, schizophrenia and autism.

Researchers hope that figuring out handedness will help them better understand brain organization and the causes of conditions such as dyslexia, stuttering, autism and schizophrenia.

Lipkin and Hornig have worked together for 21 years trying to tease out the impact of infection and immunity on brain disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, and more recently CFS / ME.

The immune system's reach within the CNS is extensive, probably contributing to the initiation and pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, and mental health disorders such as schizophrenia.

The results of this study not only advance science's understanding of the links between genes, the brain and behavior, but may lead to new insight into such disorders as autism, Down syndrome and schizophrenia.

That is necessary if the organoids are to grow bigger, probably the only way they can mimic fully grown brains and show how disorders such as autism, epilepsy, and schizophrenia unfold.

The largest of its kind, the study examined genetic data in 100,000 individuals including 40,000 people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and also found that some of the genes identified as increasing risk for schizophrenia have previously been associated with other neurodevelopmental disorders, including intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders.

Many conditions, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, as well as developmental conditions like autism, are at least in part inherited from our parents.

Christianson said his team uses neuroscience techniques «to investigate the biological basis for social cognition with the hope that we can better understand and treat people with conditions marked by aberrant social cognition such as autism or schizophrenia.»

The conditions included very rare disorders inherited in families, and more common diseases such as autism, schizophrenia and obesity.

In the real brain, maintaining a proper balance in neural network activity is important; disruptions in it appear to foster disorders such as epilepsy, and perhaps schizophrenia and autism.

The findings suggest a new avenue of exploration for understanding the origin of disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.

The root cause of psychiatric illnesses such as bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder schizophrenia, autism and ADHD is not fully understood.

They contend that mental illness can be thought of as occupying a spectrum, with autism at one end and schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression at the other.

The same change is seen in patients with neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, Down's syndrome, and autism, and in people with poor impulse control.

Many of the eight genes are active during brain development and may play a role in neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, Sanders says.

By 1980, the «Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders» (DSM) listed autism and schizophrenia as distinct diagnoses.

Hanging over the side are the marginal diagnoses of psychiatry, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism, important for certain subpopulations but not central to the discipline.At the center of the spaghetti bowl are the diagnoses at the heart of psychiatry: major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder.

Additionally, in demonstrating the usefulness of the new method, the discovery paves the way for faster progress toward identifying genes involved in complex mental illnesses such as autism and schizophrenia — as well as potential drugs for such conditions.

Now they believe these same molecules, when the system fails, might be involved in conditions as diverse as Alzheimer's, glaucoma, schizophrenia and autism.

But guessing gone seriously awry may play a part in mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, autism and even anxiety disorders, Seriès and other neuroscientists suspect.

Though these findings have been obtained in mice, the scientists hypothesize that disrupted coordination between the development of the microglia and that of the brain contributes to an increased risk of such neurodevelopmental disorders as autism and schizophrenia in human beings.

Dysfunction of synapses is associated with a host of neuropsychiatric disorders such as epilepsy, addiction, schizophrenia and autism.

A September 2008 study in Nature confirmed earlier findings suggesting that 30 percent of people who have a deleted length of three million base pairs in a region of chromosome 22 suffer from psychiatric conditions such as autism and schizophrenia.

However, if the team could amend their technique to incorporate this, it would allow them to model later stages of brain development, which could lead to insights into conditions such as autism and schizophrenia.

In a study published online April 28, 2014 in Nature, the researchers report that malfunctioning astrocytes might contribute to neurodegenerative disorders such as Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS), and perhaps even to developmental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.

The authors are currently applying this work to assess whether this form of attitude alignment may differ in people suffering from neuropsychiatric conditions, such as autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia.

Although Gage and colleagues have found that increased L1 is associated with mental disorders such as Rett syndrome, a form of autism, and a neurological motor disease called Louis - Bar syndrome, «no one had looked very carefully» to see if the gene might also contribute to schizophrenia, he says.

According to Halassa, the new research sets the stage for ever more detailed studies on the complex behavior involved in how the mammalian brain pays attention to what's important, and especially how those neural circuits are broken in cases of attention - deficit diseases, such as ADHD, autism, and schizophrenia.

But researchers have identified a promising new approach that may revolutionize the study and treatment of conditions such as schizophrenia, autism and bipolar disorder.