Sentences with phrase «group of brain disorders»

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The Foundation supports 4 groups of Warriors: the seriously injured just returning home from war; those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury; those undergoing physical or occupational therapy, and warriors who have been medically retired and remain in our community.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a term for a group of complex neurobiological (brain) conditions that affect children and adults.

The researchers caution that their findings, described online on May 4 in npj Schizophrenia — a new publication from Nature Publishing Group — do not establish a cause - and - effect relationship between mental illness and yeast infections but may support a more detailed examination into the role of lifestyle, immune system weaknesses and gut - brain connections as contributing factors to the risk of psychiatric disorders and memory impairment.

Among the disorders that Balasubramanian has targeted is retinitis pigmentosa, a group of inherited diseases that cause degeneration of the retina (in the back of the eye where millions of photoreceptors capture light rays that the brain turns into images).

This means that a group of risk genes is connected with a reduction in the size of a critical region of the brain before the disorder manifests itself.

The group» finding that the impaired intracellular protein trafficking leads to neuropsychiatric disorders - related abnormal higher brain functions has high impact on the fields of psychiatry, basic medical sciences, and pharmaceutical sciences.

A Japanese research group led by Prof Norihiro Sadato, a professor of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), has found that people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have decreased activity in an area in the brain critical for understanding if his / her movement was imitated by others.

The research group showed that a molecule, ARHGAP33 regulates synaptic functions and behaviors via intracellular protein trafficking and that the lack of ARHGAP33 causes neuropsychiatric disorder - related impaired higher brain functions.

Rupert Lanzenberger's research group at the University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, under the direction of Siegfried Kasper, is one of the leading international research teams in the field of PET brain imaging in psychiatric disorders.

All study participants either had an acute coronary syndrome such as a heart attack or unstable angina 30 days to one year before enrolling; had cerebrovascular atherosclerotic disease, in which the arteries that supply blood to the brain become constricted; had peripheral vascular disease, a group of disorders affecting blood vessels outside of the heart and brain; or had both diabetes and coronary artery disease.

«The method thus opens up completely new opportunities for investigating disorders in the architecture of the developing human brain,» explains Dr. Julia Ladewig, who leads a working group on brain development.

Now, by dampening the activity of a small group of neurons deep within the mouse brain, researchers have produced cognitive deficits similar to those found in those with schizophrenia, a discovery that they say could potentially lead to new treatments for the disorder, which affects roughly 24 million people worldwide.

«This is the first instance I am aware of where an academic drug discovery group moved a molecule designed to hopefully treat a chronic brain disorder all the way from early discovery to human trials without there being, at some point along the way, a pharmaceutical partner,» said P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D., Lee E. Limbird Professor of Pharmacology in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (VCNDD).

At Weizmann, Dr. Spiegel will be establishing his own independent research group which will attempt to identify the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which experience alters the structure and function of neural circuits in the brain in behaviorally relevant ways and to understand how these processes, when they go awry, might give rise to psychiatric disorders.

Robert Darnell's work identifying the target proteins for a group of rare brain disorders has led to an emerging understanding of the roles of RNA regulation, including the discovery that neurons make a unique set of RNA - binding proteins.

ISB's brain - related research spans across nine of our lab groups and covers such diseases as Alzheimer's, ALS, glioblastoma multiforme, bipolar disorder, and PTSD.

These interests grew from studies of paraneoplastic neurologic disorders (PNDs), a group of diseases thought to arise when tumors — typically breast, ovarian, or lung cancers — start making proteins normally only made by the brain.

10/11/2007 UC San Diego Neurologist Named Among Newest Group of Howard Hughes Investigators A University of California, San Diego School of Medicine neuroscientist who specializes in inherited brain disorders is one of 15 patient - oriented researchers selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) for appointment as an HHMI Investiga... More...

This group of antidepressants increases the amount of serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain, alleviating anxiety, decreasing aggressive behavior in certain dogs, and treating obsessive compulsive disorders.

Cerebral palsy refers to a group of disorders caused by brain damage which impairs movement, posture, and other functions.

Cerebral palsy is the term used to describe a group of disorders that result from certain problems with the development of or injury to a child's brain.

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Morphologic studies offered some preliminary support for brain - related differences between children with and without the disorder, but additional studies with control groups of children with other psychiatric and developmental disorders and larger sample sizes will be necessary before brain morphology becomes useful in diagnosing ADHD.

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are a group of related brain - based (neurodevelopmental) disorders that affect a child's behaviour, social and communication skills.