We are exploring the mechanisms underlying how maternal infection increases the risk
for schizophrenia and autism in the offspring.
With persistence — and some luck — the research could lead to better treatments or even, one day, a cure
for schizophrenia and autism.
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
Not exact matches
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.
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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And that in turn may have implications
for how we work though brain - health issues where short - term memory is a problem, including Alzheimer disease,
schizophrenia,
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and attention deficit disorder.&raq
and attention deficit disorder.»
Risks
for autism and schizophrenia rise
for kids of older fathers,
and a new genetic study suggests why
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.
The discovery may pave the way
for new treatments
for 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 teache
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 teache
for schizophrenia and behavioral therapy used to treat
autism, along with guidance on both conditions
for his parents and teache
for 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.
The discovery of specialist stem cells responsible
for our most advanced cognition could pave the way
for new treatments
for autism and schizophrenia
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.
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.
If the same circuitry is there, it could mean new treatments
for autism and schizophrenia.
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.
Dr. Lengenfelder will apply an emotional processing training protocol, proven effective
for autism and schizophrenia, in individuals with TBI.
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.
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.