Sentences with phrase «of psychiatric disease by»

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.

Not exact matches

A whopping 34 percent could «conceive of» killing a patient as a way to end suffering caused by «psychiatric disease.»

Huntington's disease is a brain disorder characterized by the emergence of decreased motor, cognitive, and psychiatric abilities, most commonly appearing in the mid-30s and 40s.

Anxiety disorders, which are characterized by an inability to control feelings of fear and uncertainty, are the most prevalent group of psychiatric diseases.

Scientific explanations for the rise of CFS cases, a phenomenon dating to the mid-1980s, have mostly focused on viruses, but psychiatric theories have abounded, too, driven primarily by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which promoted the idea that CFS was «hysteria» or hypochondria.

Associations between parental psychiatric disease and violent offending by children were stronger for female than male children; suicide attempts by children were comparable regardless of sex.

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 study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.

New studies — prompted by a renewed interest in potential applications of psychedelic drugs for understanding the brain or even treating some psychiatric diseases — suggest that far - reaching changes in brain connectivity contribute to the altered states of consciousness and other effects of an acid trip.

Risks for suicide attempts and violent offending by children were elevated across virtually the entire spectrum of parental psychiatric disease.

Less than a decade ago, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis was first identified, a disease characterized by inflammation of the brain that causes acute psychiatric symptoms including psychosis.

Parkinson's disease affects approximately 7 - 10 million people worldwide and is characterised by progressive loss of motor function, psychiatric symptoms and cognitive impairment.

The study is the result of several years of work by the Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC, http://pgc.unc.edu), an international, multi-institutional collaboration founded in 2007 to conduct broad - scale analyses of genetic data for psychiatric disease.

«By studying the genome, we are getting a better handle on the genetic variations that are making people vulnerable to psychiatric disease,» said Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, which helped fund the study.

Exclusion criteria were insomnia caused by disease or medication, sleep apnea, regular use of hypnotic or psychotropic medication, current psychotherapy, presence of major depression or other serious psychiatric conditions, or confirmed cognitive impairment.

In Singapore, cancer is still seen as a terminal disease with little hope of recovery, and there is also a stigma against psychological counselling and psychiatric support, facilitated by the general stigma against mental illness amongt both patients and, paradoxically, healthcare professionals.67 Furthermore, a family - centred model of decision - making tends to be predominant in Asian populations, 68 and in Singapore this is further encouraged by public policy such as healthcare subsidies that are based on a calculation of the immediate family's total income, rather than individual income.69 Beliefs or expectations of the role that the family caregiver ought to play may thus exist and may influence the way individuals respond to the intervention.

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

Other studies have shown that the number of psychiatric disorders a person has is related to life outcomes in young adulthood, 5 and that co-occurring mental disorders, to a small extent, influenced the consequences of anxiety and depression.3, 4, 23 More general personal traits such as childhood temperament and intellectual abilities are other individual factors that may be of importance, 26, 29 but the effects of intellectual function and psychiatric disease seem independent of each other.25 Our results indicated an influence of family factors, as indicated by the attenuation of OR in model 3.

Those whose symptoms were unexplained by organic disease were reinterviewed by one of us (MS) and a full history and psychiatric diagnostic interview17 completed to determine eligibility for inclusion.