Sentences with phrase «known schizophrenia»

Next, together with scientists from the Transfaculty Research Platform, they investigated whether any known schizophrenia risk genes are associated with the hippocampus.

Precisely how such stress can lead to a psychotic break isn't understood, but scientists do know schizophrenia has complex genetic and environmental components.

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I the mental illness known as schizophrenia is believed to be hereditary by many geneticists.

My current diagnosis gives me the conversation - stopping label of «schizophrenia (NOS — Not Otherwise Specified)».

I also struggled with deep mental health issues, including anxiety, depression and symptoms of schizophrenia — all which I took medication for, and all which I no longer need medication for!

«The regular use of cannabis is known to be associated with an increase in the risk of later developing psychotic illnesses including schizophrenia.

For example, knowing the precise brain activity involved could shed light on disorders in which body awareness is disrupted, such as schizophrenia, and help with the development of prosthetic limbs that are more easily incorporated into body image.

Stress and schizophrenia — known to decrease neurogenesis — are associated with increased drug taking and relapse.

«We know that nearly 1 percent of the U.S. population — or more than 3.5 million people — have schizophrenia,» Masdeu said.

Psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia and depression are more mysterious, he adds, because there are no known brain lesions scientists can ascribe to those conditions.

Although the clinical syndrome known as schizophrenia is already widely recognized, the connection between the cognitive and neurological impairments on the one hand and the patient's symptoms on the other remains unclear.

ZNF804A also interacts with and modulates expression of other genes known to be associated with schizophrenia.

«We don't know yet, what changes do you make, if you want to affect addiction or schizophrenia?»

Knowing how schizophrenia starts might help prevent it.

Bullimore's experience may be an extreme case, but we have long known that the drugs used to treat schizophrenia are very far from ideal.

A possible connection between smoking pot and schizophrenia is fairly well known, but the link is controversial and it affects only a small minority of users.

Nobody knows what causes schizophrenia, although recent research implicates defective genes.

To demonstrate the chip's efficacy in modeling disease, the team doped different regions of the brain with the drug Phencyclidine hydrochloride — commonly known as PCP — which simulates schizophrenia.

«We knew this gene's alteration likely contributed to schizophrenia and we wanted to better understand how,» said Mei, chairman of the Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Neuroscience and a corresponding author of the study in the journal PNAS.

But schizophrenia often strikes during adolescence, a time when — as any parent knows — bizarre behaviors are all too common.

People with depression and schizophrenia are known to have a much higher risk of developing heart disease and diabetes, and elevated levels of IL - 6 have previously been shown to increase the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

The debate underscores how little is known about the biological origins and onset of schizophrenia itself, as well as how best to treat its early stages.

No one knows what genes predispose people to schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, which each afflict about one in 100 people.

It is known that during this teenaged phase of brain development, adolescents are particularly vulnerable to psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, depression and drug addiction.

Multiple personality disorder, more recently known as dissociative identity disorder (DID), is thought to affect approximately one percent of the general population, similar to levels reported for schizophrenia.

Of individuals with recent - onset schizophrenia, 29 % exhibited signs of a particular family of retroviruses known as Human Endogenous Retrovirus W (HERV - W), compared with none of the control patients.

In the international literature schizophrenia is no longer regarded as a single illness, but as a group of separate conditions, some of which have yet to be defined.

I already know, for instance, that patients with schizophrenia have distinctive aberrations in the right superior temporal gyrus and that those with attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder have smaller brain volumes in all regions.

Only half of identical twins whose siblings have schizophrenia develop the disease, making it critical to better understand how known risk factors such as urban environments and complications at birth contribute, he says.

It also confers the highest - known genetic risk for schizophrenia.

«We also know that it's linked to Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia and drug addiction.

A rare exception is the gene known as disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1), in which some mutations have a strong effect.

You know that older drugs, such as haloperidol, work well, but a third of all schizophrenia patients who take it suffer from Parkinsonian - like symptoms, such as tremors, involuntary spasms, and uncontrollable facial movements.

The risk of schizophrenia is known to be high in individuals with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, as about one in four develops schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia risk From previous studies, the researchers knew that one of the strongest genetic predictors of people's risk of schizophrenia was found within a region of DNA located on chromosome 6.

However, it is known to reside in brain tissue, and has been linked to several psychiatric diseases, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and suicidal behavior.

Researchers have known for decades that residents of densely populated areas have higher rates of mental illnesses, including anxiety disorders and schizophrenia.

And because schizophrenia does not usually appear until the early 20s, we had decades to wait before we would know if Henry was affected.

All of us know people with dementia, schizophrenia, intellectual disability or another brain condition.

The problem has been that maybe the criteria for diagnosing PTSD are so broad and so vague and so dependent on circumstance, that in a lot of cases, they are basically indistinguishable from, say, what would be other more common place forms of depression or schizophrenia; or in some cases even just normal responses to, you know, life's traumatic injuries, sort of the normal recovery process that people will go through.

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.

Scientists still don't know exactly what causes schizophrenia.

«We know that cognitive impairment can be devastating for people with schizophrenia and there is a push to look at solutions, including medication options, brain training and brain stimulation techniques,» said lead author Gagan Fervaha, a researcher in the Complex Mental Illness program at CAMH and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.

One such gene, known as Shank3, has been linked to both autism and schizophrenia.

Research shows that older fathers are more likely to have children with schizophrenia and autism, but the team doesn't know if the mutations they observed are linked to either condition.

«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.»

The infection theory could also explain what little we know of the genetics of schizophrenia.

We know from an abundance of recent research that schizophrenia is heavily genetic in origin.

This theoretical consistency is important, as it allows researchers to better focus future studies of brain connectivity in schizophrenia, by targeting the brain regions known to be affected.

TORONTO, March 30, 2017 — A common symptom of schizophrenia — not knowing that you're ill — can be temporarily alleviated using a balance test that stimulates part of the brain with cold water, an exploratory study at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has shown.