Sentences with phrase «into schizophrenia risk»
The study is the first time scientists have been able to move from genetic studies to a biological insight into schizophrenia risk, says geneticist David Goldstein of Columbia University.
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In addition to stressful life events, trauma and family history of schizophrenia and, the calculator takes into account five other factors to determine an individual's level of risk.
A Johns Hopkins University team this week reported inserting a disrupted human gene, the schizophrenia risk factor DISC1, into lab mice, causing them to exhibit the brain asymmetry characteristic of schizophrenia as well as agitation in open spaces and trouble finding hidden food — traits reminiscent of the restlessness, impaired sense of smell and depressionlike symptoms schizophrenics suffer, Reuters reports.
«No link found between subcortical brain volumes, genetic risk for schizophrenia: Proof - of - concept study provides roadmap for future research into possible associations between brain volume measures, known genetic risk factors.»
Dr. Coyle's Laboratory for Psychiatric and Molecular Neuroscience takes advantage of insights into recently identified genes that confer risk for schizophrenia and related disorders and translates them into genetic mouse models to determine how these mutations affect brain changes as well as function, neurochemistry, and behavior.
«The findings also provide insight into which cognitive abilities put individuals at risk of developing schizophrenia and demonstrate that control carriers provide an opportunity to study cognitive abnormalities without the confounding effects of psychosis or medication.»
These Danish researchers followed 207 high - risk subjects (children of mothers with schizophrenia) and 104 low - risk subjects (children of parents with no psychiatric illness) from adolescence into adulthood.
Though PLEs and internalising and externalising psychopathology in middle childhood all constitute replicated antecedents of schizophrenia, our data indicate that internalising and externalising psychopathology experienced only during childhood is not associated with increased risk for PLEs in adolescence, whereas psychopathology that persists from childhood into adolescence or is incident in adolescence confers increased risk for later PLEs [28].