Sentences with phrase «for psychiatric disorders»

Her lab was the first to discover that ovarian hormones have an effect on genetic risk for psychiatric disorders in women.

Just about everything we know about drug treatments for psychiatric disorders we learned from mice, and yet no medication on the market today is perfect.

Some research suggests as many as 43 percent of adult primary care patients meet criteria for a psychiatric disorder.

Whether this approach works better in developing drugs for psychiatric disorders remains to be proved.

This knowledge could help develop new therapies for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia or depression.

We examine the factors (including reward sensitivity, social behaviour and stress) that influence vulnerability for psychiatric disorders.

This also happens to be the year in which the main classification systems for psychiatric disorders are due to be revised.

It might even become a target for interventions for psychiatric disorders marked by working memory problems, such as schizophrenia.

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

This allows bacteria to pass into the bloodstream, increasing the risk for psychiatric disorders through several pathways.

Large parental age differences increase the risk for psychiatric disorders, whereas other environmental factors decrease risk.

Specificity of putative psychosocial risk factors for psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents

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.

This bulletin, Assessing the Mental Health Status of Youth in Juvenile Justice Settings, reports the results of a study that used a computerized, self - administered version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC) to screen for psychiatric disorders in youth newly admitted to juvenile assessment centers in Illinois and New Jersey.

Title: The hippocampal to prefrontal cortex circuit in mice: a promising electrophysiological signature in models for psychiatric disorders Author: A. Tripathi et al..

This course is based on the results of a study that used a computerized, self - administered version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children to screen for psychiatric disorders in youth newly admitted to assessment centers in Illinois and New Jersey.

While high - dose supplementation of lithium may impair immune and thyroid function (these doses are prescribed for psychiatric disorders), an optimal lower dose (but higher than what Americans typically take in through food) is linked to longer lifespans and lower rates of mental illness.

But depression does not affect everyone, and the molecular biology of resilience for psychiatric disorders can be clearly seen by inspecting the brains of lab animals.

The animals engage in more natural play behavior, Carlos says, and are better models for psychiatric disorders because they're not unnaturally depressed or anxious.

«Maybe this situation provides a better chance of finding genes that are linked to the gambling disorder, and maybe that would pave the way for improving our understanding of the genetic transmission in general for psychiatric disorders, particularly in the realm of addiction.»

She has been investigating the value of genetic counseling for psychiatric disorders ever since, gathering evidence supporting her hunch that people are interested in genetic counseling for psychiatric illness.

When separate analyses were performed for psychiatric disorders diagnosed during childhood (0 - 19 years) and in young adulthood (≥ 20 years), the investigators found that the risk estimates were not markedly changed, indicating that the increased risks persist into adulthood.

In this role, she focuses on the development of biologically relevant high throughput biochemical and phenotypic assays to enable high throughput screening (HTS) for a variety of drug targets for psychiatric disorders, and is currently interested in developing a high throughput calcium dynamics assay to monitor synaptic networks.

Our findings emphasise the need for continued research into novel neuromodulation strategies for anorexia nervosa, and for psychiatric disorders more broadly.»

On the other hand, Carpenter says, drug development for psychiatric disorders «has been stalemated for decades» due to our lack of understanding of the biological roots of psychiatric disease.

To circumvent that problem, the researchers generated their new mouse so that ankyrin - G would only be lost in the pyramidal neurons found in the front of the brain (the region believed to be most relevant for psychiatric disorders) in adolescent and adult mice.

«But it's important because it shows it's possible to detect a signal that may be used for psychiatric disorders,» Denys says.

Scientists identify a neural pathway that controls attention, with implications for psychiatric disorders...

Short term psychodynamic psychotherapy is an effective treatment for psychiatric disorders though there is a need for further research into effectiveness for specific disorders.

Patients diagnosed in their medical records and currently treated for any mood disorder defined in ICD - 10 were invited to participate in the study with their partners, if they had at least one child aged 8 — 16 years not being treated for psychiatric disorder.

Since all our participants had chronic pain, we excluded the somatic problems category as an indication for psychiatric disorder.

The gene is a known risk factor for psychiatric disorders, and is required to maintain healthy neurotransmitter levels in the brain.

«Assisted dying for psychiatric disorders: Serious public health impact.»

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This study also found that administration of the 5 - HT reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine, one of the most commonly prescribed drugs for psychiatric disorders, increased aggression in females and inhibited aggression in males.

The most common misdiagnosis was for psychiatric disorder (13 percent), followed by fibromyalgia (12 percent), chronic fatigue syndrome (9 percent), and multiple sclerosis (8 percent).

The discovery that mice fall for the same trick could aid the development of prosthetic limbs and treatments for psychiatric disorders.