Sentences with phrase «debilitating psychiatric disorder»

Schizophrenia, a debilitating psychiatric disorder that affects approximately 1 out of every 100 people worldwide, is characterized by hallucinations, paranoia, and a breakdown of thought processes, and often emerges in the teens and early 20s.

It is a debilitating psychiatric disorder with serious implications for those affected and their families.

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Few options currently exist for treating the debilitating «negative» symptoms of severe psychiatric disorders, which include slowed movement, blunted affect, and social withdrawal.

«This study illustrates the potential of gaining fundamental insights into brain function while helping patients with debilitating diseases, and provides us with a powerful way of selecting targets based on their connectivity to other regions that can be widely applied to help guide brain stimulation therapy across multiple neurological and psychiatric disorders.»

Depression is among the most common and debilitating symptoms of psychiatric disorders and has thus been the subject of extensive study.

HD is a debilitating and ultimately fatal autosomal dominant disorder, characterized by cognitive decline, psychiatric illness and chorea.

Lee Dal Pra, LCSW is the Director of the Child Mood and Anxiety Disorder PHP / IOP at Compass Health Center in Northbrook, which provides intensive level mental health treatment to help patients overcome debilitating psychiatric symptoms through scientifically proven treatment modalities.

Professor Jaap Oosterlaan, principal investigator of the Child Study Group at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and the Emma Children's Hospital AMC, the Netherlands, said: «Now that we have firmly established children with psychiatric disorders as a high - risk group for later substance - related disorders, the next step is to make parents, clinicians, and the government aware of these risks and work together in reducing the risks for addiction and its debilitating consequences.»