Sentences with phrase «diagnoses of these brain disorders»

Early and accurate diagnoses of these brain disorders is essential for developing treatments and identifying patients eligible for clinical trials.

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Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»

«The project's goal is to accelerate the development of technologies for mapping the brain's circuitry in animal models, specifically in the marmoset monkey, whose neural circuits are much closer to human compared with rodent models, and to connect the results to the diagnosis and treatment of human neurological disorders and mental illness.»

The implications of this study reach beyond the sense of smell alone, and range from olfactory fingerprint - based early diagnosis of degenerative brain disorders to a non-invasive test for matching donor organs.

«When you match physiologic changes in the brain with behavioral impairment, you can start to understand the biological mechanisms of this disorder, which may help improve diagnosis, and, in time, treatment.»

Instead of only using a standard clinical interview to determine whether individuals met the criteria for a clinical diagnosis of bipolar disorder, the researchers combined the results from brain imaging, cognitive testing, and an array of temperament and behavior measures.

The resulting computational model will help map emotion in the brain with greater precision than ever before, and perhaps even aid the diagnosis and treatment of mental conditions such as autism and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

A digital map of the aging brain could aid the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders in older people, a study suggests.

The new findings suggest that other signs and symptoms of sleep apnea, such as loud nightly snoring, should not be ignored, because the brain and daytime behavior of a child with higher IQ may still benefit from diagnosis and treatment of the sleep disorder.

In addition to the implications for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of memory disorders, these results have public health consequences,» said Dr. Kandel, who is University Professor & Kavli Professor of Brain Science, co-director of Columbia's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and senior investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, at CUMC.

Mice inserted with a rare human genetic variation in the dopamine transporter could lead to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders.

The transgenic mouse, into which was inserted a rare human genetic variation in the dopamine transporter (DAT), could lead to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of these all - too - common brain disorders, said Randy Blakely, Ph.D., the report's senior author.

Impacts: Advances for diagnosis and treatment assessment for all brain disorders, development of more effective neural prosthetic devices.

The $ 100,000 Adelis Brain Research Award was presented to Dr. Ami Citri of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for outstanding work in the field of experience - dependent plasticity and its impact on diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Rather than a single disorder with small variations, the findings suggest that the diagnosis instead encompasses a «constellation» of different types of ADHD in which the brain functions in completely different ways.

First, we need to recognize that the brain is not disconnected from the rest of the body, that brain disorders are almost always systemic disorders, and that their cure will be found outside the brain — in the body — with the help of a functional medicine / systems biology differential diagnosis.

This study was funded by the Children's Foundation and involved measuring the relationship between brain processing of speech sounds, nonverbal emotion recognition, and other social - emotional comprehension skills in both typically - developing children and children with a range of clinical diagnoses (e.g., ASD, ADHD, reading disorders, language disorders) who are in grades K - 3.

She, along with the rest of the neurology team, our commitment to providing comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for patients with brain, spinal cord, or peripheral nerve disorders.

This software helps in the diagnosis of a number of disorders that may occur in the brain and retina.

She has received extensive bilingual training conducting neuropsychological evaluations with neurologically impaired outpatients and inpatients, with a diverse clinical diagnosis including traumatic brain injury; polytrauma; cerebrovascular accidents and a variety of neurological and medical disorders.

A native of Houston, Angelina brings more than 15 years of professional experience serving individuals who have a brain disorder or mental illness diagnosis.

[7] This decrease in brain structure and functionality is also seen in youth with other diagnoses such as in cases of child abuse and neglect, causing reactive attachment disorder and temper dysregulation as well as schizophrenia, which makes careful attention to the differential of rule - breaking behaviors important for accurate diagnosis.

Patients had to fulfil the following criteria: a diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective psychosis, or delusional disorder according to criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd edition, revised11; no evidence of organic brain disease; substance abuse not identified as the primary problem; age between 18 and 65 years; presence of persistent hallucinations or delusions, or both, for a minimum of 6 months and at least 1 month of stabilisation if they had experienced an exacerbation during this period; stable medication; no psychological or family intervention; their responsible medical officer had given permission for them to enter the study; no serious threat of violence towards the assessors; and they had given informed consent to participate.

Another mental health expert, Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation President and CEO, said that, «A child who has a diagnosis of conduct disorder may be showing... aggression towards other people - for instance, being a bully, threatening or intimidating others, engaging in physical fights.»

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.