Sentences with phrase «of schizophrenia research»

They noted that confirmation through other studies was needed before such a link could be said to be established, and they cautioned that in the history of schizophrenia research, many apparent associations had eventually proved spurious or impossible to replicate.

«While a great deal of money has been invested in developing schizophrenia drugs, a similar investment hasn't been made to develop biomarkers that could improve the reliability and consistency of test results,» said Daniel Javitt, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry and Director of the Division of Experimental Therapeutics at CUMC, Director of schizophrenia research at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, and Co-Principal Investigator of the study.

An attitude of gloom pervaded the field of schizophrenia research for decades, with many scholars insisting that improvement was exceedingly rare, if not unheard of.

«We're interested in determining patients» sleep patterns,» says John Kane, head of schizophrenia research at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. Kane, who is conducting a Proteus - funded pilot study, says, «For certain mental illnesses, changes in sleep patterns are an early sign that an illness is accelerating.»

Not exact matches

Research finds high percentage of long - term homeless suffer schizophrenia, were abused as children.

Danielle A. Schlosser, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director of the Digital Health Core in the Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the NIH - funded Digital Research and Interventions for Volitional Enhancement (DRIVE) lab at UCSF Dr. Schlosser's research program's goal is to design, develop, and investigate neuroscience - informed digital health solutions to improve the lives of people with schizophrenia and depResearch and Interventions for Volitional Enhancement (DRIVE) lab at UCSF Dr. Schlosser's research program's goal is to design, develop, and investigate neuroscience - informed digital health solutions to improve the lives of people with schizophrenia and depresearch program's goal is to design, develop, and investigate neuroscience - informed digital health solutions to improve the lives of people with schizophrenia and depression.

LifeWay Research asked three groups of Protestants — pastors, family members of people with acute mental illness (severe depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia), and those with such illnesses — when «psychological therapy» should be used.

The charity Rethink Mental Illness has welcomed a new study into the links between schizophrenia and dementia, but also called for more research into the causes of mental illness.

He also quoted research which «estimates that, to prevent one episode of schizophrenia, we would need to stop about 5,000 men aged 20 to 25 years from ever using the drug».

«The evidence suggested that schizophrenia risk predicts the likelihood of trying cannabis,» said Dr Suzi Gage, Research Associate with the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit.

Recent research explores the effects of a schizophrenia risk factor (DISC1) and its influence over the onset of the disease.

People who have a greater risk of developing schizophrenia are more likely to try cannabis, according to new research, which also found a causal link between trying the drug and an increased risk of the condition.

These characteristics appeared regardless of whether the people had suffered from depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or no disorder at all (Brain Research, doi.org/cvrpjk).

A damaging chemical imbalance in the brain may contribute to schizophrenia, according to research presented at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Annual Meeting in Hollywood, Florida.

What would really help progress this research is to use genetic variants that predict heaviness of cannabis use, as it seems that heavy cannabis use is most strongly associated with risk of schizophrenia.

When I got my first faculty position, at the University of Texas, I wanted to continue researching schizophrenia.

Previous research had found that the children of women who caught flu while pregnant are more likely to develop schizophrenia later in life.

He says that seeing schizophrenia - like anomalies in the brain of a closely related primate «really enhances the plausibility» of previous research that links flu to fetal brain development in humans.

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.

New research is pointing to a different possibility: There may be no adaptive advantage provided by schizophrenia in and of itself, but rather from some genes that contribute to the disease.

People who were bullied by siblings during childhood are up to three times more likely to develop psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia in early adulthood, according to new research by the University of Warwick.

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

According to Gur, whose program specializes in schizophrenia, translational neuroscience requires thoughtful consideration of the relevance of basic research findings to human behavior.

«Part of the terror of schizophrenia is that the brain can't properly integrate sensory information, so the world is a disorientating series of unrelated bits of input,» says Albright, the Conrad T. Prebys Chair in Vision Research.

He first began researching possible autoimmune causes of schizophrenia in the early 2010s while working at the National Institutes of Health and published early papers on the subject.

Using the new testing method, the research group was able to correctly differentiate the samples of those who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia from those who had no history of the disorder.

Further research showed that fetal mice bred to lack these molecules — like animals lacking MHCI, and like humans with autism or schizophrenia — undergo inadequate synaptic pruning in some parts of their brains.

«While further research is required before this blood test could be clinically available, these results provide evidence regarding the fundamental nature of schizophrenia, and point towards novel pathways that could be targets for preventative interventions,» Perkins said.

In addition to running his own lab, he directs the Applied Neurotherapeutic Research Group, a collaborative research initiative funded jointly by SFI and Wyeth, to understand the molecular underpinnings of changes in behavior and to identify new drug targets for diseases such as schizoResearch Group, a collaborative research initiative funded jointly by SFI and Wyeth, to understand the molecular underpinnings of changes in behavior and to identify new drug targets for diseases such as schizoresearch initiative funded jointly by SFI and Wyeth, to understand the molecular underpinnings of changes in behavior and to identify new drug targets for diseases such as schizophrenia.

Dr Rachael Panizzo, Programme Manager for Mental Health and Addiction at the Medical Research Council, added: «This large study provides further evidence of the complex genetics underlying schizophrenia.

Working with an international group of scientists from Cardiff University, Stanford University and Duke University in addition to screening post-mortem brain samples from the Stanley Medical Research Institute, the scientists are the first to identify a molecular genetic component of the blood brain barrier with the development of schizophrenia.

Remarkably, two compounds that seem to exert these neuroprotective effects — both of them a focus of intense interest in schizophrenia research — aren't sophisticated drugs but simple compounds found in nature.

The research effort he directs focuses on entirely new compounds that might slow the loss of brain cell connections, which may play a role in schizophrenia biology.

«We knew this gene's alteration likely contributed to schizophrenia and we wanted to better understand how,» said Mei, chairman of the Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Neuroscience and a corresponding author of the study in the journal PNAS.

► 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.

Christianson said the findings set the stage for a large - scale investigation of the brain circuits that work together to orchestrate responses to social emotional information with the hope that such research will lead to better treatment for people with conditions marked by aberrant social cognition, such as autism or schizophrenia.

Carson and his colleagues plan future studies involving PET imaging of synapses to research epilepsy and other brain disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, depression, and Parkinson's disease.

People with schizophrenia may now benefit from more effective, tailored treatments and greater self - empowerment, thanks to research establishing a link between childhood trauma and some of schizophrenia's most common symptoms.

Nevertheless, the flood of data stemming from this research has failed so far to yield truly effective therapies for schizophrenia, depression, and other disorders, or a truly persuasive explanation of how brains make minds.

«Childhood trauma link offers treatment hope for people with schizophrenia: People with schizophrenia may now benefit from more effective, tailored treatments and greater self - empowerment, thanks to research establishing a link between childhood trauma and some of schizophrenia's most common symptoms..»

But with all the effort being put into researching the disease, he says, «maybe 5 to 10 years from now we will have some idea of how schizophrenia works.»

Virologist Robert Yolken of Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore and psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, have long argued that each of these factors may stimulate infectious agents that could provoke individuals to develop schizophrenia as adults.

«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.

In his lecture Blom will mention a number of examples of disturbances that in practice are often mistaken for schizophrenia, and he will explain how empirical scientific research can contribute to improving care for people with diverse psychotic disturbances.

Scientists of the Transfaculty Research Platform «Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences» (MCN) at the University of Basel and the Psychiatric University Clinics have now described a network of genes that controls fundamental properties of neurons and is related to working memory, brain activity and schizophrenia.

Yet research has consistently failed to directly link parenting to the onset of schizophrenia, although numerous investigations suggest that intense familial criticism may hasten its relapse.

The Broad Institute, a collaborative biomedical research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has received a $ 650 million donation from philanthropist and businessman Ted Stanley to study the biological basis of diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Although effective new drugs based on such research may be decades away, near - term payoffs could include ways of identifying teens at risk of developing schizophrenia early on, or tools that help physicians better manage their patients» medications, added Steve McCarroll, director of genetics research at Broad.

The new findings, published 21 January in Schizophrenia Research, support an alternate theory: Autism and schizophrenia are independent outcomes of the same genetic syndrome.