Sentences with phrase «psychiatric disease also»

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The genetic variants associated with asthma have also effects on autoimmune diseases and other diseases with an inflammatory component such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, neuro - psychiatric diseases, which strengthens the importance of pleiotropy in multifactorial diseases.

Although psychiatric disorders have a genetic component, it is known that environmental factors also contribute to disease risk.

The newly discovered vessels, which were also identified in human samples, could explain the long - standing conundrum of how the immune system manages to contribute to neurological and psychiatric disease.

The findings also suggest that identifying the brain circuits affected by mutated genes linked to psychiatric disease could help scientists develop more personalized treatments for patients in the future, Feng says.

Table 1 also reports the percentage of spouses who died within a year after their own hospitalization; as expected, the diseases show substantial variation in lethality, with one - year death rates varying from 7.3 percent (for women with psychiatric disease) to 82.0 percent (for men with pancreatic cancer).

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.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — April 29, 2012 — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have determined how specific circuitry in the brain controls not only body movement but also motivation and learning, providing new insight into neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease — and psychiatric disorders such as addiction and depression.

This work should lead to a better understanding of not only neuropsychiatric diseases associated with autoantibodies but also of more common neurological or psychiatric diseases in which similar protein dysfunction are reported.

Andrew has also used neuroimaging research projects to study aging and dementia, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, depression, and other neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Patients with cephalosporin allergy or a history of significant psychiatric disorder prior to onset of Lyme disease were also excluded.

In addition to workers» compensation, our firm has also helped clients qualify for permanent total disability in cases involving work - related lung diseases, psychiatric disabilities and chronic back or neck injuries.

There was also no evidential basis before their lordships to support a finding that the creation of the risk of an asbestos related disease would foreseeably cause psychiatric illness to

In Singapore, cancer is still seen as a terminal disease with little hope of recovery, and there is also a stigma against psychological counselling and psychiatric support, facilitated by the general stigma against mental illness amongt both patients and, paradoxically, healthcare professionals.67 Furthermore, a family - centred model of decision - making tends to be predominant in Asian populations, 68 and in Singapore this is further encouraged by public policy such as healthcare subsidies that are based on a calculation of the immediate family's total income, rather than individual income.69 Beliefs or expectations of the role that the family caregiver ought to play may thus exist and may influence the way individuals respond to the intervention.

Functional expectations of caregivers are often huge with multiple responsibilities such as household chores, emotional support, providing transportation and symptom management.4 As cancer survivorship grows, from 50 % in the 70s, to 54 % between 1983 and 1985, to 65 % in 2009, the illness may become a chronic disease, further stressing caregivers with a cumulative and unrelenting burden of care and responsibility.5 Psychological morbidity or psychiatric symptomatology among cancer caregivers is high.6, 7 Levels of distress have also been shown to be higher than those reported by patients themselves.8