Sentences with phrase «of psychiatric research»

The Czech - born psychiatrist conducted dozens of government - sanctioned LSD experiments in the»50s,»60s, and early»70s on heroin addicts, alcoholics, and terminal cancer patients in his native Prague and later at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, a mental health facility in Catonsville, Maryland, where he was chief of psychiatric research.

«They were at the cutting edge of psychiatric research,» Grob says.

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23andMe and Ancestry both have research partnerships with pharmaceutical companies that explore things like the genetics of aging, psychiatric disorders, or lupus.

Lifton has dedicated his career in psychiatric research to investigating a variety of uniquely modern confrontations with death and man's perennial struggle to overcome it.

In T - 4 an estimated 94,000 psychiatric patients (all of them «Aryan» and roughly half of them with dementia) were suffocated in gas chambers or left to freeze in vats of ice water as part of a research project on hypothermia.

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.

As for those who believe that sleep - training harms infants, we have no research evidence that babies who are sleep - trained are at higher risk of behavioral and psychiatric disorders later in life.

In response to the books» radical departure from current pediatric and psychiatric advice, scores of concerned medical, lactation science and child development experts are speaking out against what they see as potentially dangerous child - care guidance, being offered up with little in the way of credible supporting research.

Although concussion research is still considered in its infancy, there have been increasing proof of a link between head injuries and psychiatric and mood disorders.

Randolph Nesse and Kent Berridge, psychiatric investigators with the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, reported in Science that medicine may never win the war against drug addiction because «it is rooted in the fundamental design of the human nervous system.»

Schizophrenia and other psychiatric issues may be triggered by marijuana use, according to a research analysis in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.

Belger, the director of the UNC Neurocognition and Imaging Research Laboratory, and recent UNC graduate student Joseph Shaffer, PhD, compared brain scans from more than 100 people with schizophrenia against brain scans from people with no psychiatric diagnoses.

The authors also thank the individuals with psychiatric disorders and their families who originally suggested this line of research.

Research presented at a Berlin psychiatric conference shows teenage cannabis use hastens onset of schizophrenia in vulnerable individuals

As noted by Dr. Vicki Ellingrod — the Chair of this session, «Current state - of - the - art research in both animal models as well as humans point to the link between the gut microbiota and mood and anxiety models, as well as the potential for psychiatric medications to directly affect the gut microbiome.»

New research from the University of Missouri finds that for mental health courts to be successful, every professional engaged in the process should be aware of the relationship between psychiatric symptoms and participant engagement within the system and connect participants with comprehensive treatment and services as early as possible.

► The Broad Institute received a huge donation — $ 650 million, the largest ever made for psychiatric research — from philanthropist and businessman Ted Stanley, to study the biological basis of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Emily Underwood wrote at ScienceInsider.

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

A study that synthesized more than 50 years of research into suicide rates for patients after discharge from psychiatric facilities suggests the immediate period after discharge was a time of marked risk and that the risk remained high years after discharge, according to a new article published by JAMA Psychiatry.

Researchers, led by Ralph Hingson, Sc.D., director of the NIAAA Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research, analyzed data from two waves of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), which is a series of large epidemiologic surveys that examine alcohol use and its co-occurrence with drug use and related psychiatric conditions.

«I think I can best serve the research by not being a user - advocate,» he says, heeding a healthy number of studies that show the drug can precipitate psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia and cause people to engage in lethal behavior like jumping off buildings.

A study supervised by Columbia University School of Nursing professor Nancy Reame, MSN, PhD, FAAN, and published in the Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, identifies the PCOS complications that may be most responsible for psychiatric problems.

A research team, led by Brendan Depue, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for Neuroscience, trained 16 subjects — none of whom were previously diagnosed with any psychiatric problems — to recognize 40 pairs of visual stimuli.

«Other research shows that psychiatric disorders earlier in childhood are strong predictors of marijuana use later on,» Grucza said.

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.

But the «critical flaw» in the new research is that it doesn't fully account for the fact that women suffering from psychiatric illnesses already have a greater risk of having children with ASD, says Roy Perlis, a psychiatric geneticist at Harvard University who consults for several biotechnology startups.

In addition to fulfilling her dream of delivering genetic counseling services to psychiatric patients, the clinic provides Austin a venue to train specialist genetic counselors and directly access patients and their families for her research.

«Such evidence quantifying shared genetic risk factors among traditional psychiatric diagnoses will help us move toward classification that will be more faithful to nature,» said Bruce Cuthbert, Ph.D., director of the NIMH Division of Adult Translational Research and Treatment Development and coordinator of the Institute's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project, which is developing a mental disorders classification system for research based more on underlyingResearch and Treatment Development and coordinator of the Institute's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project, which is developing a mental disorders classification system for research based more on underlyingResearch Domain Criteria (RDoC) project, which is developing a mental disorders classification system for research based more on underlyingresearch based more on underlying causes.

This study also goes above and beyond prior research as it shows that gambling youth are not only at risk of gambling problems, which are associated with numerous adverse interpersonal, financial, criminal, and psychiatric consequences, but also at risk for sex - related behaviors such as adolescent pregnancy / impregnation.»

Although further research into A-CRA's efficacy in treating various combinations of substance use and psychiatric disorders is warranted, the authors argue that there's no reason for providers to wait when it comes to offering comprehensive treatment to adolescents who could benefit from their help right now.

Rupert Lanzenberger's research group at the University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, under the direction of Siegfried Kasper, is one of the leading international research teams in the field of PET brain imaging in psychiatric disorders.

«PTSD may be one of the most preventable of psychiatric disorders,» said first author Laramie Duncan, who did part of the research while at the Broad Institute and is now at Stanford University.

Research suggests that between five and 15 per cent of the general population have had an occasional experience of hearing voices, with as many as one per cent having more complex and regular voice - hearing experiences in the absence of any need for psychiatric care.

We believe that genetic variation is an important factor contributing to this risk or resilience,» said senior author Karestan Koenen, professor of psychiatric epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who leads the Global Neuropsychiatric Genomics Initiative of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute.

«This was the first study that examined youth with psychiatric disorder by comparing what type of service they were receiving and whether that was associated with self - concept,» said Mark Ferro, the Canada Research Chair in Youth Mental Health and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Waterloo.

«OCD research has lagged behind other psychiatric disorders in terms of genetics,» Nestadt says.

One of the outstanding puzzles in psychiatric research is that even though it's clear that serotonin plays a role in anxiety, widely prescribed serotonin - related drugs like Prozac show little efficacy on emotional disorders.

Research suggests that this form of punishment can cause severe psychiatric and neurological damage to inmates, and evidence for its effectiveness in reducing crime or recidivism is scant.

For the qualitative research study, Bertram served on the care team of eight adolescents with histories of hospitalization for psychiatric problems.

Scientists Bad: A survey of more than 1,000 horror films shown in Britain between 1931 and 1984 found that scientists or their creations were the villains in 41 percent of the films and that scientific or psychiatric research had produced 39 percent of the threats.

But new research presented at the American Diabetes Association's 74th Scientific Sessions ® shows that symptoms of depression in people with type 2 diabetes can be significantly reduced through interventions for «diabetes distress,» suggesting that much of what is being labeled as depression may not be a co-morbid psychiatric disorder after all, but rather a reaction to living with a stressful, complex disease that is often difficult to manage.

As a result of this study, Dr. Kumar and her team are researching the effect of specific psychiatric comorbidities commonly seen in individuals with ADHD on the development of obesity.

Dr. Maples - Keller and colleagues review the current state of research on VR technology for psychiatric treatment.

Several metabolic and psychiatric diseases are associated with circadian rhythm and sleep disturbances, and this research opens the doors toward an improved understanding of these disorders.

Nineteen healthy subjects without a psychiatric history (age mean / SD: 29/7.8; gender: 14 male, 5 female)(Table 1) participated in this study after providing written informed consent as approved by the medical ethics committee for research in humans (METC) of the University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Our results build on prior research indicating that state same - sex marriage bans were associated with increased rates of psychiatric disorders19 and that health expenditures decreased following implementation of a same - sex marriage policy in Massachusetts.22 Our study contributes evidence on the association between same - sex marriage and mental health based on a robust analysis that controls for differences in state characteristics and for other state - level events that may affect suicide attempts, which are unlikely to systematically vary with the same geographic and temporal pattern as same - sex marriage implementation.

Other research has shown that long - term use of cannabis increases adolescent drug users» risk for certain psychiatric and neurological disorders, such as schizophrenia.

The Program for Neuropsychiatric Research (PNPR) at McLean Hospital, founded in 2004 by Dr. Bruce Cohen, is a consortium of investigators and clinicians using laboratory, brain imaging, and clinical techniques to increase understanding of the causes of psychotic, mood, and related psychiatric disorders and use that knowledge to guide the development of improved treatments.

The $ 100,000 Adelis Brain Research Award was presented to Dr. Ami Citri of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for outstanding work in the field of experience - dependent plasticity and its impact on diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Furthermore, her research has also influenced the development of tests to assess, diagnose and treat people with brain disorders resulting from traumatic injury and degenerative diseases, as well as from psychiatric illness.