Sentences with phrase «multiple psychiatric diseases»

Not exact matches

New research led by UC San Francisco scientists has revealed that mutations in a gene linked with brain development may dispose people to multiple forms of psychiatric disease by changing the way brain cells communicate.

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.

The European Union's $ 1.1 billion Human Brain Project, for example, aims to understand the brain as a single system, integrating multiple levels of organisation — surely a key step towards preventing or curing psychiatric diseases.

«This study illustrates the potential of gaining fundamental insights into brain function while helping patients with debilitating diseases, and provides us with a powerful way of selecting targets based on their connectivity to other regions that can be widely applied to help guide brain stimulation therapy across multiple neurological and psychiatric disorders.»

Jin's lab is characterizing basic rules of how the brain executes actions from multiple levels of analysis and providing insights into action - related neurological and psychiatric diseases.

Other neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with mercury include narcolepsy, obsessive - compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, Tourette syndrome and borderline personality disorder, as well as neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis.

2 Although CD affects only 1 % of the population officially, it is associated with many autoimmune comorbidities of the neuromusculoskletal systems like myesthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis, peripheral neuropathy, cerebellar ataxia, myalgia (muscle pain), multiple myoclonus, depression, anxiety, psychiatric disease, and many others.

SKILLS SUMMARY Pharmaceutical sales professional with proven success across multiple products, various indications and disease states, direct health care experience in neurological and psychiatric clinical settings.

Functional expectations of caregivers are often huge with multiple responsibilities such as household chores, emotional support, providing transportation and symptom management.4 As cancer survivorship grows, from 50 % in the 70s, to 54 % between 1983 and 1985, to 65 % in 2009, the illness may become a chronic disease, further stressing caregivers with a cumulative and unrelenting burden of care and responsibility.5 Psychological morbidity or psychiatric symptomatology among cancer caregivers is high.6, 7 Levels of distress have also been shown to be higher than those reported by patients themselves.8

They communicate in manners that demonstrate healthcare literacy across multiple disciplines (e.g., medical - and psychological / psychiatric - terminology, disease - and / or diagnosis - specific nomenclatures), and regularly articulate the manners in which multiple BPSS dimensions interact with each other in the present, across the lifespan, and with consideration of cultural / spiritual beliefs and practices.