Sentences with phrase «influence psychiatric diseases»

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The new finding is the latest evidence supporting a growing precision medicine model of psychiatric disease in which disruptions of certain genes during brain development contribute to a person's risk for multiple psychiatric disorders, with other genetic or epigenetic drivers, random developmental events, or environmental influences determining the specific disease an individual develops, said senior author Benjamin Cheyette, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry and a member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF.

Furthermore, her research has also influenced the development of tests to assess, diagnose and treat people with brain disorders resulting from traumatic injury and degenerative diseases, as well as from psychiatric illness.

In Singapore, cancer is still seen as a terminal disease with little hope of recovery, and there is also a stigma against psychological counselling and psychiatric support, facilitated by the general stigma against mental illness amongt both patients and, paradoxically, healthcare professionals.67 Furthermore, a family - centred model of decision - making tends to be predominant in Asian populations, 68 and in Singapore this is further encouraged by public policy such as healthcare subsidies that are based on a calculation of the immediate family's total income, rather than individual income.69 Beliefs or expectations of the role that the family caregiver ought to play may thus exist and may influence the way individuals respond to the intervention.

Other studies have shown that the number of psychiatric disorders a person has is related to life outcomes in young adulthood, 5 and that co-occurring mental disorders, to a small extent, influenced the consequences of anxiety and depression.3, 4, 23 More general personal traits such as childhood temperament and intellectual abilities are other individual factors that may be of importance, 26, 29 but the effects of intellectual function and psychiatric disease seem independent of each other.25 Our results indicated an influence of family factors, as indicated by the attenuation of OR in model 3.