Sentences with phrase «multiple disorders which»

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The late Carney Landis, from the perspective of a research psychologist, wrote: «If there is any human disorder which can be truly said to be of multiple etiology, it is alcoholism in all its diverse forms.»

Multiple myeloma is preceded by a blood disorder called monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) in which abnormal plasma cells produce many copies of an antibody protein.

British newspapers reported this weekend that Ian Wilmut, the University of Edinburgh biologist who led the team that in 1997 cloned Dolly the sheep, is getting out of the cloning business in light of the new findings, which seem to offer researchers a likely new source of stem cell lines for basic research that could one day lead to new treatments and perhaps cures for spinal injuries, diabetes and debilitating disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

And even if such a demand existed, there was no evidence that genetic counseling could help patients with psychiatric disorders, which — like most of the more common diseases — are caused by a complex interplay of multiple genes and variants as well as environmental factors.

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.

A severe and more chronic form of dissociation is seen in mental illnesses and rare forms of dissociative disorders, such as dissociative identity disorder, which was once called multiple personality disorder.

Shanghai WA Optimum Health Care, for example, which has plush headquarters in a gated estate in one of the wealthiest areas of central Shanghai, claims success in using stem cells derived from umbilical cord or adipose tissue to treat a range of disorders, from autism to multiple sclerosis.

Taking into account that the study was conducted with animals which aged naturally, we believe this could have the therapeutic ability to treat dementia and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's or multiple sclerosis, among others,» Miguel Chillón points out.

«Crohn's disease is a complex disorder with multiple genes and environmental factors involved, which disproportionally affects individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry,» explained lead researcher Inga Peter, Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

For many, she provided a startling introduction to a rare and intriguing condition: then known as multiple personality disorder (MPD), a disease of the mind affecting mostly women, in which...

Wong studied how the SIRT1 protein controls a type of immune cell called T helper cells, which have been linked to inflammation and autoimmune disorders, such as multiple sclerosis and arthritis.

We describe a multiple dnCNV (MdnCNV) phenomenon in which individuals with genomic disorders carry five to ten constitutional dnCNVs.

They have also been linked to disorders of the central nervous system including anxiety, depression, autism and multiple sclerosis, which may be a consequence of an ecosystem that has fallen out of balance.

This sets off a firestorm of inflammation, which can lead to autoimmune disorders - including Addison's disease, Celiac, Multiple sclerosis, Rheumatoid arthritis, Type I diabetes, Lupus, etc..

She is also a patient with a chronic progressive neurological disorder, secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her...

She is also a patient with a chronic progressive neurological disorder, secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt - recline wheelchair for four years.

More than 50 million Americans suffer from autoimmune disorders, which include diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS), Crohn's Disease, and Celiac Disease.

Dr. Wahls is also a patient with a chronic progressive neurological disorder, secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt - recline wheelchair for four years.

Frankie and Alice stars Halle Berry as a woman with multiple personality disorder (one of which happens to be racist), along with Stellan Skarsgard as her doctor, Phylicia Rashad as her mother, and Chandra Wilson (Grey's Anatomy) as her sister.

A while back, director M. Night Shyamalan teased audiences that he is already currently writing his follow - up project to the critically and financially successful multiple personality disorder thriller Split, which he also confirmed will also be a sequel to arguably his greatest effort, Unbreakable, which we learned is also set in the same universe as -LSB-...]

James McAvoy may have taken on the sizeable task of playing multiple roles in the upcoming thriller, Split, about a man suffering from dissociative personality disorder, but the first trailer for Manifesto, which is receiving its international premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival, offers an astonishing glimpse of the 13 -LRB-!)

The term «severe handicap» means the disability which requires multiple services over an extended period of time and results from amputation, blindness, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, deafness, heart disease, hemiplegia, mental retardation, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, neurological disorders (including stroke and epilepsy), paraplegia, quadriplegia and other spinal cord conditions, renal failure, respiratory or pulmonary dysfunction, and any other disability specified by the Secretary in regulations he shall prescribe.

Breaking book news over the weekend is that Herschel Walker, 1982 Heisman Trophy winner, has multiple personality disorder, which he reveals in his upcoming book, Breaking Free.

Epilepsy is a seizure disorder in which your pet experiences multiple seizures throughout its lifetime.

CEA, which segregates in several herding breeds with Collie ancestry, was mapped to a large region of CFA37 that included over 40 genes [92]; subsequently the fact that the disorder segregates in multiple, closely related breeds was used to reduce the size of the critical disease - associated region and pinpoint the causal mutation to a 7.8 kb intronic deletion in the NHEJ1 gene, which spans a highly conserved binding domain to which several developmentally important genes bind [91].

French bulldogs can also suffer from a condition called megaesophagus, a term which collectively describes several esophageal disorders and malformations in any combination from single - to - double or multiple.

Allianz Tuition Insurance offers multiple plans, some of which provide reimbursement up to 100 % for a withdrawal as the result of a mental health disorder.

The primary objective of our review is to systematically review and meta - analyse evidence to determine if parent skills training programmes for parents who have a child with a developmental disorder produce greater benefits than no treatment or standard care on child functioning and on parental or family functioning, as measured across multiple domains, and to use meta - analytic techniques to determine which programme components are most reliably associated with the most successful outcomes of parent skills training programmes.

The first study, which was recently published, showed the effectiveness of schema therapy as a treatment for cluster C personality disorders in older adults by means of a multiple baseline case series design.

The second study, which will be presented, concerns a multiple baseline design for assessing the effectiveness of schema therapy for borderline personality disorder in later life.

Adolescents» behaviour may vary from one context to another, or from one interaction partner to another, and informants» reports may be affected by their own perspectives.13 Because there is no gold standard for psychiatric disorders, and reports from different informants tend to correlate only moderately, using information from multiple informants seems the best strategy to chart mental health.14 Among other things, adherence to this first principle is expressed in the use of child (Youth Self - report; YSR), and parent (Child Behavior Checklist; CBCL) questionnaires on child / adolescent mental health, which are part of the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA), 15,16 and the use of a teacher - report (Teacher Checklist of Psychopathology), which was developed for TRAILS on the basis of the Achenbach Teachers Report Form.17 It is also expressed in the use of peer nominations to assess adolescents» social status at school.

Sometimes a client's symptoms can be the result of multiple kinds of disorders, and it may be unclear from an interview alone which disorders are the primary cause of the symptoms.

Psychological testing is very effective for determining a client's true diagnosis, and if multiple different disorders are present, testing can determine the prominence of each disorder in causing the client's symptoms, which clarifies the most appropriate treatment.

Estimates suggest that three - quarters of school - age children in foster care (many of CASE's children have spent time in the system) experience abuse, and one - quarter experience post-traumatic stress disorder — which is exacerbated by the trauma of multiple foster care placements.

First, we identified which CBCL scales were most effective as screening mechanisms for comorbid disorders common within ADHD: conduct disorder, major depression (with severe impairment), bipolar disorder, multiple (> 2) anxiety disorder, and any comorbid disorder (any of the previous disorders versus none of these).

This is a case with multiple chromosomal aberrations which are likely etiological for the observed psychiatric phenotype consisting of attention deficit hyperactivity and conduct disorders.