The FDA has approved antipsychotics for treatment of certain mental disorders,
particularly schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, yet the majority of the people in the study had no such diagnosis.
Not exact matches
For the 2.2 million Americans with
schizophrenia and the 5.7 million Americans with
bipolar disorder, the increased prevalence of obesity
and its related diseases such as type 2 diabetes
and cardiovascular disease is
particularly disconcerting.
Fallin's interests are in applying genetic epidemiology methods to studies of neuropsychiatric disorders including autism, Alzheimer's disease,
schizophrenia,
and bipolar disorder
and in developing applications
and methods for epigenetic epidemiology,
particularly as applied to mental health
and development.