Sentences with phrase «for autism and schizophrenia»

Dr. Lengenfelder will apply an emotional processing training protocol, proven effective for autism and schizophrenia, in individuals with TBI.

If the same circuitry is there, it could mean new treatments for autism and schizophrenia.

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

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

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

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Back then, it was hypothesised that the A1 beta - casein protein found in the milk of some cows was a risk factor for diabetes, heart disease and possibly also schizophrenia and autism.

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.

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

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

The researchers identified for the first time master genes that they believe control hundreds of other genes which are linked to Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, stroke, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, depression, schizophrenia and other disorders.

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.

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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 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.

Before birth, it might lead to imprecise synaptic pruning, leaving too many connections and setting the stage for autism or schizophrenia.

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.

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.»

Risperidone is used to treat various psychiatric disorders in adults and children, including autism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, and prescribing rates for children have increased nearly eight-fold over the last two decades.

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

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

Statistically significant hazard ratios for specific groups of psychiatric disorders were found for schizophrenia and psychoses (1.27, 1.16 - 1.38), affective disorders (1.32, 1.25 - 1.39), anxiety and other neurotic disorders (1.37, 1.32 - 1.42), mental and behavioural syndromes including eating disorders (1.13, 1.04 - 1.24), mental retardation (1.28, 1.17 - 1.40), mental development disorders including autism spectrum disorders (1.22, 1.16 - 1.28), and behavioural and emotional disorders including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)(1.40, 1.34 - 1.46), when compared with rates in naturally conceived children.

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

Two years later, the team received funding for a larger - scale investigation, evaluating a whole suite of social skills in 54 individuals with schizophrenia, 54 with autism and average intelligence quotients (IQ) and 56 typical adults.

For this reason, the labels «autism» and «schizophrenia» could include a range of subtypes or conditions within them.

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

Then she learned that people with 22q duplication — abnormal repetition, or duplication, of genetic material in chromosome 22 — had learning delays and sometimes autism, but a lower risk for schizophrenia than that found in the general population.

For that boy, her colleagues recommended medication commonly prescribed for schizophrenia and behavioral therapy used to treat autism, along with guidance on both conditions for his parents and teacheFor that boy, her colleagues recommended medication commonly prescribed for schizophrenia and behavioral therapy used to treat autism, along with guidance on both conditions for his parents and teachefor schizophrenia and behavioral therapy used to treat autism, along with guidance on both conditions for his parents and teachefor his parents and teachers.

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.

«The risk for schizophrenia increases 2-fold when a father is over 45 years of age, and the risk for autism increases 2 -5-fold.

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.

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.

With persistence — and some luck — the research could lead to better treatments or even, one day, a cure for schizophrenia and autism.

The researchers don't yet know if these changes are responsible for the increased chance of autism and schizophrenia in the children of older men, but Michael Carroll at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, suspects this is the case.

As well, although most of the discussion has focused on persons with difficult - to - treat depression, legalizing assisted dying for psychiatric disorders would mean that persons with schizophrenia, autism, eating disorders, PTSD, personality disorders, and even prolonged grief would be eligible to receive assisted dying.

The results, adds Muñoz, may also speed the search for drug therapies for conditions where the senses are disrupted, including Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and autism.

Risperidone is a commonly prescribed antipsychotic medication which is FDA approved for use for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorder.

They will recruit it to help them develop not only new diagnostic tests for autism or schizophrenia but also new therapies for depression and Alzheimer's disease.

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.

Fallin's interests are in applying genetic epidemiology methods to studies of neuropsychiatric disorders including autism, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder and in developing applications and methods for epigenetic epidemiology, particularly as applied to mental health and development.

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

Now researchers at UC San Francisco have taken the first step toward a comprehensive atlas of gene expression in cells across the developing human brain, making available new insights into how specific cells and gene networks contribute to building this most complex of organs, and serving as a resource for researchers around the world to study the interplay between these genetic programs and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, intellectual disability and schizophrenia.

The assessment of social behavior has become critical for the phenotyping of animals models of autism and schizophrenia.

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This offers interesting opportunities for interpreting mechanisms of genetic contribution to human disease such as schizophrenia, autism, and rheumatoid arthritis.

He has developed paradigms that are being used to screen drugs that enhance social function, and is developing novel strategies for drug discovery for treating social impairments in autism and schizophrenia.

We are exploring the mechanisms underlying how maternal infection increases the risk for schizophrenia and autism in the offspring.

Dr. Lee and his colleagues at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School are also looking into natural remedies for diabetes, depression, autism, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's disease.

These knockouts may be important models for human brain diseases that affect working memory including Alzheimer's Disease, schizophrenia, autism, and ADHD.

This work has important implications for developing novel treatment strategies for psychiatric disorders associated with social cognitive deficits, including autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia.