Sentences with phrase «on schizophrenia and autism»

«Because big genetic studies have been done on schizophrenia and autism and other diseases, you can calculate someone's risks of developing those diseases from their genetic information and you can see if it's associated with contagious yawning,» she said.

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The effect of paternal age on autism, schizophrenia, and ADHD may be greater than previously thought

In the heady postwar years, hundreds of promising studies were conducted in the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depression.

Scientists used CRISPR - Cas9 to shed light on why people with 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome — a rare human genetic disorder — are more likely to develop brain disorders like autism spectrum disorder, epilepsy and schizophrenia (Karun K. Singh, abstract 103.05, see attached summary).

Lipkin and Hornig have worked together for 21 years trying to tease out the impact of infection and immunity on brain disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, and more recently CFS / ME.

Schmid says enhancing habituation and sensory filtering in autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia might have beneficial effects not only on hyper - and hyposensitivity, but also on cognitive function.

Future studies about romantic attachment will focus on using the findings from research such as Young's and Diamond's to develop new treatments for grief associated with partner separation or loss and for disorders that involve social deficits, such as schizophrenia and autism.

The same conflict that gives rise to autism and schizophrenia may be at work in all of us, nudging us one way or another on the spectrum from father - brain to mother - brain.

On one hand, a number of recently identified genetic contributors to schizophrenia and autism interact closely with the WNT system.

Looking at these results, along with Pinkham and Sasson's findings, Eack says, «There may be certain things that are particularly prominent to focus on in schizophrenia — and other things that may be less prominent or more prominent to focus on in autism.

Sasson was studying developmental psychology, with a focus on autism, and Pinkham was interested in schizophrenia and clinical psychology.

For too long, psychology has mistakenly relied on the same language to describe similar features in autism and schizophrenia.

The two diagnoses started to take on separate lives, with age of diagnosis — around 4 years in autism and between 16 and 30 in schizophrenia — becoming an important differentiator.

For that boy, her colleagues recommended medication commonly prescribed for schizophrenia and behavioral therapy used to treat autism, along with guidance on both conditions for his parents and teachers.

Last week at the 23rd International Conference on Subterranean Biology in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he demonstrated how drugs that help people with schizophrenia and autism similarly affect the fish.

According to Halassa, the new research sets the stage for ever more detailed studies on the complex behavior involved in how the mammalian brain pays attention to what's important, and especially how those neural circuits are broken in cases of attention - deficit diseases, such as ADHD, autism, and schizophrenia.

As well, although most of the discussion has focused on persons with difficult - to - treat depression, legalizing assisted dying for psychiatric disorders would mean that persons with schizophrenia, autism, eating disorders, PTSD, personality disorders, and even prolonged grief would be eligible to receive assisted dying.

On the negative side, the researchers found that many of the genes whose activity is unique to modern humans are linked to diseases like Alzheimer's disease, autism and schizophrenia, suggesting that these recent changes in our brain may underlie some of the psychiatric disorders that are so common in humans today.

Dr. Palop's research focuses on understanding the neural processes underlying cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in neurological conditions associated with destabilization of neuronal networks, such as epilepsy, autism, or schizophrenia.

ENIGMA discovers factors that affect the progression on Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, schizophrenia, depression and bipolar illness, HIV / AIDS, methamphetamine abuse, autism, and childhood brain disorders.

This network is now the focus of work on brain function in health and disease worldwide, and it has been hypothesised to be relevant to disorders including Alzheimer's disease, autism, and schizophrenia.

Future studies of these cells are expected to shed light on developmental diseases such as autism and schizophrenia and malformations of brain development, including microcephaly, lissencephaly and neuronal migration disorders, they say, as well as age - related illnesses, such as Alzheimer's disease.

These findings have led Shatz and others into a new line of research on the role of MHC molecules in learning and memory, and how they may contribute to conditions such as stroke damage, Alzheimer's disease, autism and schizophrenia.

Based on their effect on neurons, as well as their locations in the genome, the researchers think that many of the HARs guide genes involved in brain development, as well as psychiatric diseases that are uniquely human, such as autism and schizophrenia.

This network is now the focus of work on brain function in health and disease worldwide, and it has been hypothesized to be relevant to disorders including Alzheimer's disease, autism, and schizophrenia.

Men who become fathers later in life pass on more brand - new genetic mutations to their offspring, a study has found — probably contributing to disorders such as autism and schizophrenia in the next generation.

Digestive health has an impact on mental health problems such as autism, depression, schizophrenia and many others.

In this capacity he has invested a great deal of time and effort on clinical trials examining the effects of broccoli sprouts (which contain phytochemicals extremely closely related to those found in moringa) in protecting against cancers, COPD, asthma, autism, schizophrenia, air pollution injury, and other diverse conditions.

Other treatments listed comprise a historical tour of psychotherapy: Freudian dream analysis, Jungian sand trays, past lives, future lives, primal scream, Erhard Seminar Training, Bettelheim's model for treating childhood autism, family therapy for schizophrenia based on the double - bind theory, marathon encounter groups, and holding therapy for attachment disorders.

In addition, increased focus and attention on preventive medicine has increased the need for more professionals trained in conditions such as depression, schizophrenia, mood disorders, conduct disorders, anorexia, autism, and marital distress and conflict.