Sentences with phrase «like autism and schizophrenia»

Impairments in the ability or motivation to connect with others profoundly impact the lives of individuals with disorders like autism and schizophrenia.

Krogan is applying this network approach to cardiovascular disease and psychiatric disorders like autism and schizophrenia.

«Diseases like autism and schizophrenia remain elusive because neuroscience hasn't found a structural problem to fix.

The model expands the research toolkit for investigations of social behaviors and psychiatric diseases like autism and schizophrenia.

Not exact matches

In the heady postwar years, hundreds of promising studies were conducted in the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depression.

Scientists used CRISPR - Cas9 to shed light on why people with 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome — a rare human genetic disorder — are more likely to develop brain disorders like autism spectrum disorder, epilepsy and schizophrenia (Karun K. Singh, abstract 103.05, see attached summary).

These newer studies are beginning to uncover the reasons why men are much more susceptible to neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and ALS; why autism, dyslexia, stuttering and early onset schizophrenia are three to four times more prevalent in boys; and why attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is diagnosed 10 times more often in boys.

Its use was later extended to the study of diseases like Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, autism, and stroke.

Further research showed that fetal mice bred to lack these molecules — like animals lacking MHCI, and like humans with autism or schizophrenia — undergo inadequate synaptic pruning in some parts of their brains.

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

Psychologists Noah Sasson and Amy Pinkham, who are conducting the trial, have pored over hours of tape featuring scenes like this one, evaluating how people with autism or schizophrenia approach everyday interactions.

Geneticists are starting to unpick what causes psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and even some autism - like developmental conditions

The current challenge is to identify which genes contribute to multifactorial conditions like obesity, heart disease, alcohol dependency, schizophrenia and autism.

On the negative side, the researchers found that many of the genes whose activity is unique to modern humans are linked to diseases like Alzheimer's disease, autism and schizophrenia, suggesting that these recent changes in our brain may underlie some of the psychiatric disorders that are so common in humans today.

By modeling early development of the human cerebral cortex, researchers hope to better study disorders like autism, epilepsy, and schizophrenia.

Although genetic deletion of BACE1 results in abolished amyloid pathology in AD model mice, it also results in neurodevelopmental phenotypes such as hypomyelination and synaptic loss, observed in schizophrenia and autism - like phenotype.

Alterations in the amygdala have been reported in psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety disorders like PTSD, schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder.

While they aren't sure yet, the researchers note that the Zika virus resembles some infections that can increase the risk for mental illness later in life, like schizophrenia, autism, and bipolar disorder.

Copper toxicity, or deregulation, is much more common than copper deficiency today and can cause many issues, like Tourette's, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and Asperger's.

Quite a lot of research has been done in this area, where gluteomorphins have been found in the urine of patients with schizophrenia, autism, ADHD, postpartum psychosis, epilepsy, Down's syndrome, depression, and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.