Sentences with phrase «including autism and schizophrenia»

Scientists have used these animals as a model for disorders of social behavior, including autism and schizophrenia.

I harness these technological advancements to assemble genomes for a variety of organisms and probe the genetic basis of neurological disorders, including autism and schizophrenia, better understand cancer progression and understand the complex structures of the genomes of higher plants.

They contend that upsets in the tug - of - war between imprinted genes in the brain could help explain the origins of some mental illnesses, including autism and schizophrenia.

Several neurological disorders, including autism and schizophrenia, are thought to be driven in part by the failure of myelin to properly surround axons during development.

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There are also some controlled trials associating wheat gluten with various disorders of the brain, including schizophrenia, autism and cerebellar ataxia (45, 46, 47).

This discovery also explains why sensory interferences, including synesthesias and hallucinations, can occur in people suffering from neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism or schizophrenia.

Attendees will also delve into the neural circuitry that underlies common diseases, including autism, Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia.

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, autism, depression and attention deficit disorder.&raqAnd 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, autism, depression and attention deficit disorder.&raqand attention deficit disorder.»

The list included schizophrenia and autism.

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.

Many conditions, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, as well as developmental conditions like autism, are at least in part inherited from our parents.

Disorders associated with faulty neuronal circuits include epilepsy, autism, schizophrenia, mental retardation and spasticity and movement disorders, among others.

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.

Similarly, many problems related to attention — including attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder, drug addiction, some forms of autism, and schizophrenia — have been associated with a dopamine deficit.

The conditions included very rare disorders inherited in families, and more common diseases such as autism, schizophrenia and obesity.

Such disorders, which include epilepsy and, experts theorize, schizophrenia and autism (SN Online: 7/17/15), can arise when the brain's communication networks develop off - kilter.

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.

Even though a biomarker shared by schizophrenia and autism might not reveal anything specific to autism, he adds, it might highlight a neural process that is central to social cognition, and that might be altered in several conditions, including autism.

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

A key regulator of alternative splicing is the Rbfox family of proteins, which are enriched in neurons and previously were linked to neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism, schizophrenia, and epilepsy.

With their new method, Zhang and her colleagues hope to soon begin looking at the unique properties of human astrocyte cells in a range of disease types, including Alzheimer's, ALS, stroke, injury, autism, and schizophrenia.

«It's abnormal in a number of neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, autism, obsessive - compulsive disorders and some of the others,» Gingrich says.

The molecules produced during gluten digestion include exorphins, which have also been found in the spinal fluid of people with schizophrenia and autism, and are thought to worsen the symptoms of these neurological diseases.

Still, Dudley feels that evolutionary genetic analysis can help identify the most relevant genes and pathological mechanisms at play in schizophrenia and possibly other mental illnesses that preferentially affect humans — that is, neurodevelopmental disorders related to higher cognition and GABA activity, including autism and attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder.

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.

In a final step they also analysed whether any of the enhancers contained genetic changes already linked to a range of disorders including, attention deficit disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and autism.

Professor Suckling added: «The sex differences in the limbic system include areas often implicated in psychiatric conditions with biased sex ratios such as autism, schizophrenia, and depression.

Complementing its extensive capabilities, PsychoGenics offers a variety of validated mouse models including in - licensed transgenic models that support research in areas such as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, Autism spectrum disorders, psychosis / schizophrenia, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), muscular dystrophy and other muscle disorders.

This network is now the focus of work on brain function in health and disease worldwide, and it has been hypothesised to be relevant to disorders including Alzheimer's disease, autism, and schizophrenia.

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.

Future studies of these cells are expected to shed light on developmental diseases such as autism and schizophrenia and malformations of brain development, including microcephaly, lissencephaly and neuronal migration disorders, they say, as well as age - related illnesses, such as Alzheimer's disease.

We are also interested in the human diseases that affect learning and memory, including Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and ADHD.

Prof Sten Linnarsson from the Karolinska Institut in Sweden, said: «About a third of neurological disorders are developmental in origin, including autism, schizophrenia and intellectual disability.

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.

The PGC is currently genotyping new samples to further study schizophrenia and additional psychiatric diseases, including autism and bipolar disorder.

One feature of many psychiatric diseases, including OCD, addiction, autism, and schizophrenia, is a lack of cognitive flexibility.

This network is now the focus of work on brain function in health and disease worldwide, and it has been hypothesized to be relevant to disorders including Alzheimer's disease, autism, and schizophrenia.

In the process, they discovered further evidence that microglia may play roles in a variety of neurodegenerative and psychiatric illnesses, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases as well as schizophrenia, autism and depression.

When antioxidants in blueberry, strawberry and spinach are combined, they together protect the nervous system by inhibiting an enzyme that may be involved in certain neurologic disorders, including autism, depression and schizophrenia.

His analysis has included tens of thousands of persons suffering with mental health conditions including depression, anxiety, Autism, ADHD, biopolar disorder, schizophrenia, post partum depression and psychosis.

Numerous studies, including data from the World Health Organization (WHO), have linked A1 with increased risk of heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, sudden infant death syndrome, and neurological disorders, such as autism and schizophrenia.

Risperdal is an atypical antipsychotic drug that is used to treat various disorders, including autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.

He is experienced in representing clients suffering from autism spectrum disorder and mental health disorders including paranoid schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder.

Risperdal is approved to treat certain mood and mental disorders, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, as well as irritability linked to autism.

Psychological disorders is a sub-field of developmental psychology and include psychopathy, autism, schizophrenia, and depression.

The examples of exceptionalities emphasized include anxiety disorders, affective disorders, attention disorders, communication disorders, mental retardation, autism, schizophrenia, substance abuse disorders, conduct disorders and eating disorders.

The theory provides insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders including autism, anxiety, depression, ADD, PTSD, and schizophrenia.