The award was bestowed in recognition of his work on understanding and improving treatments for
psychiatric conditions including autism and severe intellectual disability.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- In recognition of his work to understand and improve treatments for
psychiatric conditions including autism and severe intellectual disability, the White House on Monday, Jan. 9, named Dr. Eric Morrow as winner of a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering.
Not exact matches
It was during this time that Dr. Chandra came to appreciate the role of environmental toxins, chronic infections, and nutritional deficiencies in the development and progression of many disorders,
including some chronic
psychiatric conditions.
Because of stigma and other barriers, most people with a
psychiatric illness
including depression and anxiety related
conditions don't get any help at all.
Subjects
included 119 healthy volunteers and 26,683 patients with a variety of
psychiatric conditions such as brain trauma, bipolar disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia / psychotic disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
The authors suggest that the intricate balance between the signaling of neurons in these three brain regions may be crucial for normal social behavior in humans, and that disruption may contribute to various
psychiatric conditions,
including autistic spectrum disorders.
They emphasise the need for mental care to be
included in the clinical care of these patients, particularly those with pre-existing
psychiatric conditions, or with poor prognosis.
Professor Suckling added: «The sex differences in the limbic system
include areas often implicated in
psychiatric conditions with biased sex ratios such as autism, schizophrenia, and depression.
«In the future, these may lead to treatments for a variety of brain disorders,
including psychiatric and cognitive
conditions as well as neurodegenerative diseases.»
Penn neurosurgeons are investigating innovative technology to make surgery safer and more effective, and expanding their research focus to
include neuro -
psychiatric conditions such as depression under careful clinical trial protocols.
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In her Cambridge, England clinic, she successfully treats children and adults with a wide range of
conditions,
including autism, ADD / ADHD, neurological disorders,
psychiatric disorders, immune disorders, and digestive problems using the GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) Nutritional Program, which she developed.
As of June 2015, there were 116 clinical trials evaluating the possible anti-disease effect of curcumin in humans,
including studies on cancer, gastrointestinal diseases, cognitive disorders, and
psychiatric conditions.
According to John V. Dommisse, MD, an expert in vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) deficiency and therapy, the
psychiatric conditions most associated with vitamin B12 deficiency
include toxic brain syndrome, paranoia, violence and depression.
His areas of clinical focus
include metabolic syndrome (diabetes, cholesterol, blood pressure, overweight / obesity), autoimmune
conditions (arthritis, asthma, allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, IBS, migraine, etc...),
psychiatric concerns (depression, anxiety, insomnia, ADHD, bipolar, etc...), and autistic spectrum disorders.
Beyond these, migraine increases the risk for other physical and
psychiatric conditions,
including depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbances.
There are more than 40 options listed on the sign - up page, ranging from behavioral and
psychiatric conditions like autism or Tourette's, to physical
conditions including IBS, MS, and quadriplegia.
Findings in this heavily litigated area are often predicated on erroneous clinical assumptions such as: that doctors accept uncritically and at face value what the client says about their history (HE (DRC — credibility and
psychiatric reports) Democratic Republic of Congo [2004] UKIAT 00321); that only psychiatrists can diagnose
conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (HH (Ethiopia) v SSHD [2007] EWCA Civ 306, [2007] All ER (D) 259 (Mar)-RRB-; and that doctors do not consider alternative explanations,
including fabrication when, in fact, this is integrated into medical training and has always been a specified requirement of the IP (para 105 (f)-RRB-.
These factors
included: (1) Whether disclosing that an individual is in the facility could reasonably cause harm or danger to the individual (e.g., if it appeared that an unconscious patient had been abused and disclosing the information could give the attacker sufficient information to seek out the person and repeat the abuse); (2) whether disclosing a patient's location within a facility implicitly would give information about the patient's
condition (e.g., whether a patient's room number revealed that he or she was in a
psychiatric ward); (3) whether it was necessary or appropriate to give information about patient status to family or friends (e.g., if giving information to a family member about an unconscious patient could help a physician administer appropriate medications); and (4) whether an individual had, prior to becoming incapacitated, expressed a preference not to be
included in the directory.
Patients with concurrent medical and
psychiatric conditions, except as noted above, were
included unless a medical
condition contraindicated one of the study medications.
According to clinical judgement, participants were excluded if they suffered from severe depression (≥ 7 criteria,
including main symptoms), severe anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, severe
psychiatric and psychotic
conditions, substance abuse, suicidal ideation or if they exhibited low - German language and / or computer skills.
Several common childhood
psychiatric conditions have features similar to those of conduct disorder, and comorbid
conditions are also common.11 The differential diagnosis should
include attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder, mood disorder (major depression, dysthymia, bipolar disorder), substance abuse and intermittent explosive disorder (Table 2).
Depression occurs more commonly in individuals with other
psychiatric conditions,
including substance abuse, eating disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety, and PTSD — to name a few.
Limitations
include small sample size, retrospective recall may have been compromised, and unable to differentiate
condition from therapist effects, may not generalize to other racial / ethnic groups or to the broader population of depressed adolescents with comorbid conduct disorder and other
psychiatric disorders, and randomization process resulted in unequal gender representation in the two
conditions.
These
include physical
conditions such as asthma, diabetes, leukemia and sickle cell disease as well as
psychiatric and developmental disabilities such as ADHD and autism spectrum disorders.
Emotion regulation deficits are one of the many challenges youths face that contributes to the steep escalation in rates of comorbid
psychiatric conditions observed throughout adolescence,
including increased internalizing, externalizing, and substance use disorders [10, 26].
These
included:
psychiatric disorder (duration and severity between ages 15 and 32 years, coded into none (59 %, no evidence of
psychiatric disorders), mild (37 %, minor or inconsequential nervous disorders) or severe (5 %,
psychiatric episodes of more than a year's duration, or any out - patient or in - patient episodes for
psychiatric disorder); neuroticism and extraversion (measured at age 26 years by the Maudsley Personality Inventory14); chronic illness (physical, non-fatal
conditions in 14 % of parents between ages 20 — 25 years); physical activity (frequency and duration in the preceding month collected at age 36 years.