Sentences with phrase «autism and schizophrenia»

The work could one day lead to prenatal diagnosis and treatment of conditions thought to have a developmental component, such as autism and schizophrenia.

For too long, psychology has mistakenly relied on the same language to describe similar features in autism and schizophrenia.

This helps us in everyday life, but it also holds great potential when trying to understand why people with autism and schizophrenia have difficulties with social interaction.

The discovery may pave the way for new treatments for autism and schizophrenia.

The research revealed fascinating physical similarities, and differences, in the patterns of gene expression across disorders including autism and schizophrenia.

The model expands the research toolkit for investigations of social behaviors and psychiatric diseases like autism and schizophrenia.

This isn't the first study to show a family connection between autism and schizophrenia.

Perhaps the most valuable takeaway from comparing autism and schizophrenia's social features would be better treatment.

In some disorders, particularly autism and schizophrenia, this ability is disrupted.

And although autism and schizophrenia are characterized differently in popular books and film, scientists have long suspected that the two conditions are somehow linked.

Because despite the advances in understanding autism and schizophrenia, treatment is limited and difficult, and a cure remains elusive.

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

Scientists have used these animals as a model for disorders of social behavior, including autism and schizophrenia.

At Caltech, developmental neurobiologist Paul Patterson found he could induce the core symptoms of autism and schizophrenia in mice by giving their mothers the flu during pregnancy, or by arousing their immune systems in utero with an injection of foreign RNA.

Scientists are starting to compare the social deficits autism and schizophrenia share, using a variety of methods, from eye tracking and behavioral assessments to electroencephalography (EEG)-- a noninvasive way to track the brain's electrical activity.

Manipulating such molecules, these scientists believe, may be key to treating many devastating neurological ailments, from autism and schizophrenia to Alzheimer's and ALS.

Risks for autism and schizophrenia rise for kids of older fathers, and a new genetic study suggests why

«Attaining knowledge of the processes underlying social understanding in people in general is an important part of the process of attaining knowledge of the underlying causes of the difficulties that some people diagnosed with autism and schizophrenia experience in sustaining social understanding.

«Diseases like autism and schizophrenia remain elusive because neuroscience hasn't found a structural problem to fix.

In other words, they increase the odds of developing any number of neurodevelopmental conditions, not just autism and schizophrenia.

But bringing autism and schizophrenia back together — at least in a research setting — could generate new leads for characterizing and addressing both.

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

«What there generally hasn't been in the literature are very many studies comparing autism and schizophrenia directly,» Foss - Feig says.

Boulanger recently found that decreasing the level of the MHC class I molecules in the bodies and brains of mice was sufficient to cause biochemical and behavioral symptoms of autism and schizophrenia in the mice.

Men who become fathers later in life pass on more brand - new genetic mutations to their offspring, a study has found — probably contributing to disorders such as autism and schizophrenia in the next generation.

The Muotri lab uses induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with autism and schizophrenia to look for biomarkers of these conditions.

The discovery of specialist stem cells responsible for our most advanced cognition could pave the way for new treatments for autism and schizophrenia

They contend that upsets in the tug - of - war between imprinted genes in the brain could help explain the origins of some mental illnesses, including autism and schizophrenia.

One of the most striking contrasts between autism and schizophrenia is how they affect the ability to understand others.

Autism and schizophrenia share certain symptoms, such as a reduced capacity for communication and social interaction, Young says.

Krogan is applying this network approach to cardiovascular disease and psychiatric disorders like autism and schizophrenia.

A2 Corp claimed the beta casein A1 found in most cows» milk sold in New Zealand had been linked with the development of coronary heart disease, childhood diabetes and also implicated in autism and schizophrenia.

First, the role of mind mapping in a wide range of disorders has been studied using state - of - the - art MRI, fMRI, and PET brain scanners, from autism and schizophrenia to alcoholism and depression.

Studies suggest that diet and stress modify sperm epigenetically and increase an offspring's risk of heart disease, autism and schizophrenia.

The Muotri lab uses induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from patients with autism and schizophrenia to look for biomarkers of these conditions.

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.

«Now we wonder if this could explain why more males have diseases such as autism and schizophrenia, which appear to have neurobiological causes.»

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.

Autism and schizophrenia may be two sides of the same coin, suggests a review of genetic data associated with the conditions.

She examined risk factors specifically involving epilepsy, ADHD, autism and schizophrenia.

A new study from Aarhus University, Denmark, helps us understand why people with autism and schizophrenia have difficulties with social interaction.

The same conflict that gives rise to autism and schizophrenia may be at work in all of us, nudging us one way or another on the spectrum from father - brain to mother - brain.

Several neurological disorders, including autism and schizophrenia, are thought to be driven in part by the failure of myelin to properly surround axons during development.

It is possible that autism and schizophrenia themselves are partly the result of conflicts between parental genes, Crespi and Badcock say.

As part of that initiative, McPartland is leading one of the largest comparative studies of social ability in autism and schizophrenia.

He and Pinkham have a hunch that autism and schizophrenia have vastly different «social» profiles.