Sentences with phrase «cause schizophrenia»

Gluten sensitivity won't cause schizophrenia out of the blue, especially if you don't have a genetic component.
None of these appear to cause schizophrenia, they are simply related in some way).
In rare cases this may even cause a schizophrenia - like problem in which the individual mistakes dreams for reality.»
This suggests it is modern drugs that cause schizophrenia's high suicide rate, he says.
In addition to shedding light on how abnormal glia can cause schizophrenia, the study underlined how readily mouse brains accept human cells.
It received funding from the NIH as well as private foundations, to unravel how brain development goes off the rails to cause schizophrenia.
The drugs were found to block dopamine signalling, bolstering the theory that overactivity of these pathways caused schizophrenia.
Researchers are far from a complete understanding of what causes schizophrenia and how it affects the brain, and some psychiatrists contend that treating a patient for a disease not yet manifest is a clear violation of a basic tenet of medicine: to do no harm.
Nobody knows what causes schizophrenia, although recent research implicates defective genes.
Scientists still don't know exactly what causes schizophrenia.
Scientists have identified three genes that could play a role in causing schizophrenia, a German researcher said.
This suggests that there is a problem of the chicken and egg scenario in relation to expressed emotion causing schizophrenia.

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Focusing on schizophrenia as a particular exemplar of this change, Luhrmann examines the evolution of psychiatry from psychoanalysis (mental illnesses are caused by emotional conflict) to a purely biomedical scheme (mental illnesses are caused by genes) to present theories, which incorporate both the biological and the social causes (and treatments) of mental illness.
This is very confusing and results in a denial of actual experience, a paradigm for splitting the self and also for creating a double - bind (which family therapy literature asserts is a root cause of schizophrenia).
In Games People Play, he says that one of his games is the cause of schizophrenia: «If the family game... is analyzed to demonstrate that the schizophrenic behavior was and is specifically undertaken to counter this game, partial or total remission occurs in a properly prepared patient.»
An example of this Christian schizophrenia is the embarrassment caused to the World Council of Churches by a report of one of its consultations on the need for a non-anthropocentric ethic, and in particular the need for Christian concern for oppressed animals, especially those used for human purposes.
Mothers from families with pronounced mental health issues are not the sole cause of baby showing signs of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or depression.
People are generally aware of the most common causes of hallucinations, like schizophrenia and a really high fever.
The charity Rethink Mental Illness has welcomed a new study into the links between schizophrenia and dementia, but also called for more research into the causes of mental illness.
15 years after a gene defect was found to increase the risk of schizophrenia 30-fold, scientists have figured out how it might cause the brain disorder's debilitating symptoms
In schizophrenia, excessive oxidation — which involves the same type of chemical reaction that causes metal to corrode into rust — is widely thought to cause inflammation and cellular damage.
Bierut: I am trained as a psychiatrist, so I have my medical degree and specialized training in psychiatric disorders such as alcoholism, depression, schizophrenia, and I also have training in genetics so to understand how illnesses are transmitted through families, and so we are trying to look at how mental illnesses and addictions are transmitted in families and understand the underlying genetic causes of them.
Using iPSCs, researchers developed a novel cellular disease model to probe the neurobiological causes of schizophrenia, which are not well understood (ChangHui Pak, abstract 032.29, see attached summary).
Bacteria or viruses could cause illnesses from diabetes to schizophrenia that are usually blamed on genes or unhealthy lifestyles
Psychotic disorders — such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder — cause abnormal thoughts and perceptions, and often involve hallucinations or delusions.
He first began researching possible autoimmune causes of schizophrenia in the early 2010s while working at the National Institutes of Health and published early papers on the subject.
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.
Conditions that cause the brain's receptors to stop functioning properly are often mistaken for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder because these diseases are associated with a decrease in activity of the NMDA receptors, which control how someone thinks, makes decisions, and perceives the world around them.
Like many human diseases, schizophrenia is complex, and no single genetic or environmental factor has been identified as the cause of the disease.
But even if anti-inflammatory drugs prove to be a useful treatment, the causes of schizophrenia will still be unknown.
«Disturbances to these processes may cause neuronal stem cells to develop into different types of cells or may cause neurons to migrate to different locations in the brain, changing neuronal circuitry and potentially leading to behavioral disorders like schizophrenia
Concerning the problems when it comes to perceiving chronological sequences, these could also be caused by fundamental cognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia and may not be related to the general way they perceive time.
The causes of schizophrenia are frustratingly mysterious.
The results fit with other evidence that autism may be caused by overdevelopment of specific brain regions and schizophrenia by underdevelopment, says Crespi.
Up to 1 % of people will eventually be diagnosed with schizophrenia, a disease that can cause delusions and hallucinations and severely impair a person's ability to relate to others.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 21 million people worldwide suffer from schizophrenia, a severe psychiatric disorder that can cause delusions and hallucinations and lead to increased risk of suicide.
Dysfunction in dopamine signaling profoundly changes the activity level of about 2,000 genes in the brain's prefrontal cortex and may be an underlying cause of certain complex neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, according to UC Irvine scientists.
One of the biggest surprises was that half of the 10 leading causes of disability were from psychiatric conditions: depression, alcoholism, bipolar disease, schizophrenia and obsessive - compulsive disorder.
«I think I can best serve the research by not being a user - advocate,» he says, heeding a healthy number of studies that show the drug can precipitate psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia and cause people to engage in lethal behavior like jumping off buildings.
The protein may cause people with schizophrenia to lose nerve cell connections, researchers propose.
The root cause of psychiatric illnesses such as bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder schizophrenia, autism and ADHD is not fully understood.
A Johns Hopkins University team this week reported inserting a disrupted human gene, the schizophrenia risk factor DISC1, into lab mice, causing them to exhibit the brain asymmetry characteristic of schizophrenia as well as agitation in open spaces and trouble finding hidden food — traits reminiscent of the restlessness, impaired sense of smell and depressionlike symptoms schizophrenics suffer, Reuters reports.
Mutations seen in people with autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder cause loss of synapses in mice
You just diagnosed a person with schizophrenia, and you can prescribe any number of antipsychotic drugs, all of which can cause serious side effects.
It makes more sense to study the genesis of hallucinations, for example, than to expect to understand the diverse causes of schizophrenia, which does not present in one uniform way.
Excessive dopamine secretion results in schizophrenia, causing a loss of integrity of neuronal activity, and abnormal thoughts and emotions.
A new Duke University study in mice links three previous and, until now, apparently unrelated hypotheses about the causes of schizophrenia, a debilitating mental disorder appearing in late adolescence that affects how people think, act and perceive reality.
Researchers have identified a gene that increases the risk of schizophrenia, and they say they have a plausible theory as to how this gene may cause the devastating mental illness.
Emil Kraepelin, a German psychiatrist, wrote in 1913 that the causes of schizophrenia were «wrapped in impenetrable darkness.»
Research led by scientists from Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke - NUS) has linked the abnormal behaviour of two genes (BDNF and DTNBP1) to the underlying cause of schizophrenia.
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