Sentences with phrase «of addiction disorders»

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Jacquelyn Eckern, nutritionist and president of Eating Disorder Hope & Addiction Hope, notes that cutting out entire food groups — not just dairy — can be dangerous for your health because «our bodies need these nutrients to function correctly.»

Strikingly, while one type of digital addiction may be creating a new kind of mental disease, video games are also being explored as a means to treat mental disorders like Alzheimer's and ADHD.

Neither Internet addiction nor smartphone addiction is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the principal guidebook for diagnosing and classifying mental disorders.

She first excavates the roots of our corporate heartlessness» in our culture's disordered desires — what she describes as our culture's «addiction to consumerism,» its «idolatry of money» and its «massive failure of compassion» for other creatures and the earth.

Focus on image and looking a certain way so guys will want you can lead to a very unhealthy life (lots of biographies have been written about the behind the scenes horror of eating disorders and drug addictions).

Charles C. Hewitt summarizes his findings, in «A Personality Study of Alcohol Addiction,» as follows: «Alcohol addiction, in the group studied in this survey, seems to be associated, with but few exceptions, with deep personality dAddiction,» as follows: «Alcohol addiction, in the group studied in this survey, seems to be associated, with but few exceptions, with deep personality daddiction, in the group studied in this survey, seems to be associated, with but few exceptions, with deep personality disorders.

30 However, the evidence seems clear that the vast majority of American alcoholics do suffer from relatively severe personality disorders which provide the soil in which the seed of addiction takes easy root when the person begins to drink.

However, it is well to remember the opinion expressed by Giorgio Lolli, former medical director of the Yale Plan Clinic for Alcoholics, who states: «There is practically no case of alcohol addiction isolated from other neurotic disorders and bodily illnesses.»

Unless you live in a cave without Wi - Fi, you probably think of drug addiction or alcoholism — or having HIV or an anxiety disorder — as, above all else, a health issue.

Through education, support, advocacy and research, API's principal goal is to heighten global awareness of the profound significance of secure attachment — not only to invest in our children's bright futures, but to reduce and ultimately prevent emotional and physical mistreatment of children, addiction, crime, behavioral disorders, mental illness and other outcomes of early unhealthy attachment.

Through education, support, advocacy and research, API's principal goal is to heighten global awareness of the profound significance of secure attachment - not only to reduce and ultimately prevent emotional and physical mistreatment of children, addiction, crime, behavioral disorders, mental illness, and other outcomes of early unhealthy attachment, but to invest in our children's bright futures.

Through her own personal life experience, in combination with several years of intense training with Dr. Stephanie Mines (http://tara-approach.org), Jeanice has come to a deep understanding of how early overwhelming experiences can influence one's health and personality throughout life and can cause a variety of disorders later in life including, but not limited to, repetitive relationship problems, chronic health issues, drug and alcohol addiction, uncontrollable violence and criminal behavior, chemical imbalances in the brain, fertility issues, severe depression, and an inability to lead a joyful, healthy life.

Dr. Schwartz completed her internship at the Manhattan V.A. Hospital, where she received extensive training in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as well as other clinical issues including depression, anxiety, sleep, addiction, and adjustment disorders.

The therapists at Concentric are experts in relationship challenges, marriage, couple and family issues, addictions and compulsive behaviors, life transitions, depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorders, unresolved family - of - origin issues and varying degrees of trauma.

Bullying has reached epidemic proportions and, according to at least forty years of psychological, psychiatric, sport, and neuroscientific research, is directly correlated with addiction, low self - esteem, depression, failure to reach potential, self - harm, athletes quitting sports, eating disorders, chronic illness and suicide.

Over-use of any of the opiate drugs can lead to addiction and opioid use disorder.

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The Russian government has recently implemented more rigorous health requirements for adopting parents — a history of psychiatric disorders, drug and alcohol addictions, tuberculosis, and infectious diseases, for example, may disqualify potential parents.

Narratives range from humorous to heart - wrenching: a teen is smitten by an older boy, a son battles drug addiction, a parent steals the unthinkable, a daughter and her family navigate thunderstorms, a mother redefines «home» for her autistic son — plus compelling essays on parenting teens with chronic illness or anxiety disorders or that inevitable phase of parenting which requires letting go of your teenager.

Many in the medical community think that drugs should be illegal because of the potential for harm and that the current policy is sufficient to keep the risk of HIV and addiction disorder under control.

«These videos are a great tool for adults to educate themselves about the reality of substance use disorders, so that they can help young New Yorkers understand the devastating effects of addiction,» Gonzalez - Sanchez said.

MICA Housing - MICA — are Group Home and Treatment Apartment Programs capable of providing specialized staffing and services for consumers who are diagnosed with an addictions disorder as well as a psychiatric disability.

Their goal is to save lives while erasing the stigma of addiction, and educate the community to treat addiction appropriately, as «substance abuse disorder», a recognized disease.

Alcoholics Anonymous, one of the largest treatment providers for addiction, frames the disorder as a kind of character defect — one that can be fixed and forgiven through willpower and spirituality, not science.

«The reason why Internet addiction isn't a widely recognized disorder is a lack of scientific evidence.

Nevertheless, Asian nations are not waiting around for a universal definition of Internet addiction disorder, or IAD.

Naltrexone needs to be made readily available in the medicine kits of the families and friends of anyone with an opioid addiction disorder, Ciccarone said, adding, «It needs to be this generation's EpiPen.»

Psilocybin has been studied for the treatment of a variety of mental disorders, including treatment - resistant depression, addiction and end - of - life anxiety.

Bierut: I am trained as a psychiatrist, so I have my medical degree and specialized training in psychiatric disorders such as alcoholism, depression, schizophrenia, and I also have training in genetics so to understand how illnesses are transmitted through families, and so we are trying to look at how mental illnesses and addictions are transmitted in families and understand the underlying genetic causes of them.

What makes this particularly relevant is that in both conditions — in addiction and in compulsive - obsessive disorders — you have a compulsive pattern of behavior.

With rapid advances over the past 10 years in technologies for discovering and analyzing the functions of genes, researchers are now increasingly able to get at the biological roots of complex disorders such as substance abuse and addiction.

In 1995, Ivan Goldberg, a New York psychiatrist, published one of the first diagnostic tests for Internet Addiction Disorder.

Proposed revisions include uniting several autism - related diagnoses, including Asperger's syndrome and Rett's syndrome, under the umbrella of autism spectrum disorder; introducing a diagnosis of gambling addiction; and eliminating the distinction between alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse.

Jasanoff is critical of how the cerebral mystique reduces problems of human behavior, such as drug addiction or eating disorders, to problems of the brain.

The brain - on - a-chip could be useful for studying any number of neurological and psychiatric diseases, including drug addiction, post traumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injury.

«The imaging technique could shed light on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead author of the study and a researcher from the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.

It represents the first large scale study of individuals seeking treatment for gambling problems in the UK, at a time when this disorder is being re-classified alongside drug addiction as the first «behavioural addiction».

Similarly, many problems related to attention — including attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder, drug addiction, some forms of autism, and schizophrenia — have been associated with a dopamine deficit.

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

Dennis Miller, associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts & Science and an investigator with the Bond Life Sciences Center, and researchers in the Center for Translational Neuroscience at MU, study therapies for drug addiction and neurodegenerative disorders.

She is presently on the Board of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health, collaborates with Penn's Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Mental Health, and has written about how American families cope with addiction and mental disorders.

The prevalence of mental illness among homeless individuals is much higher than the rest of the population, with more than 12 per cent suffering from severe mental illness, 11 per cent having mood disorders and close to 40 per cent reporting alcohol and drug addictions.

The results have just been published in the International journal Addiction Research and Theory, and are one of several studies from Aarhus University focusing on medical doctors» consumption of substances and substance use disorders.

«Maybe this situation provides a better chance of finding genes that are linked to the gambling disorder, and maybe that would pave the way for improving our understanding of the genetic transmission in general for psychiatric disorders, particularly in the realm of addiction.»

That's one of the reasons basal ganglia are related to conditions such as obsessive - compulsive disorder, addiction, and Tourette's syndrome.

«In pursuit of pleasure, brain learns to hit the repeat button: New study in mice shows how the brain learns to reproduce patterns of brain activity that lead to reward; provides insights for treating addiction and obsessive - compulsive disorder.»

A protein known as FosB in the reward centre of the brain alters in chronically ill people suffering from an addictive disorder (e.g. heroin addiction): it is genetically modified, split off and shortened.

Addiction may be viewed as a disorder of reward learning.

This criminalization of drug addiction means, as Schnittker puts it, that «some inmates end up in prison at least partially because of their psychiatric disorders.»

«This knowledge is crucial for developing new treatments for not just Parkinson's disease, but also for addiction, ADHD and bipolar disorder, as all of these diseases are associated with some type of disorder in the function of the dopamine neurons, and specifically in the dopamine transporter,» states Kopra.