Sentences with phrase «psychiatric disease led»

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«There are a lot of naturally occurring dog diseases — especially psychiatric diseases — that are very similar to human diseases,» Hyun Ji Noh, a geneticist at the Broad Institute and the lead author on the study, told Business Insider.

Today, the paradigm has widened into a much bigger idea that expands our understanding of psychiatric disease: A whole host of infections and other unknown triggers lead to the production of antibodies and immune cells that can cross into the brain.

«The practice of the Wim Hof Method may lead to tonic changes in autonomous brain mechanisms, a speculation that has implications for managing medical conditions ranging from diseases of the immune system to more intriguingly psychiatric conditions such as mood and anxiety disorders,» said Diwadkar, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences.

One of the biggest surprises was that half of the 10 leading causes of disability were from psychiatric conditions: depression, alcoholism, bipolar disease, schizophrenia and obsessive - compulsive disorder.

The findings provide insight into the biological pathways that may predispose an individual to disease and could ultimately lead to the development of new therapeutic avenues to treat the five major psychiatric illnesses.

New research led by UC San Francisco scientists has revealed that mutations in a gene linked with brain development may dispose people to multiple forms of psychiatric disease by changing the way brain cells communicate.

But when the enzymes are over-activated, the brain produces an excessive level of neurotoxic byproducts, causing neuronal dysfunctions that lead to psychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases.

In this paper, Fox led a team that first conducted a large - scale literature search to identify all neurological and psychiatric diseases where improvement had been seen with both invasive and noninvasive brain stimulation.

Despite the noble efforts of clinicians and researchers, our limited insight into the roots of psychiatric disease hinders the search for cures and contributes to the stigmatization of this enormous problem, the leading cause worldwide of years lost to death or disability.

Drawing upon genetic discoveries, Broad scientists are uncovering the biology that leads to disease, including cancer, psychiatric disease, and immunological disease, in order to identify potential new drug targets and new treatment strategies.

«In the future, these may lead to treatments for a variety of brain disorders, including psychiatric and cognitive conditions as well as neurodegenerative diseases.»

Huntington's disease (HD) is a lethal autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease that leads to deficits in motor control and cognitive / psychiatric functions.

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.

Increased understanding of the developing brain and how deviations from normal development can increase the risk of neurological and psychiatric diseases has created a rich landscape of opportunity for collaborations between leading academic medical centers and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies dedicated to identifying new drugs and other interventions to help children.

The failed attempts to define a function for DRD4 in psychiatric and neurological conditions led some to observe that DRD4 was a «gene in search of a disease.»

By reprogramming human skin cells and other cells from patients with neurologic and psychiatric diseases into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and induced neurons (iN), his work seeks to decipher the progression and mechanisms that lead to brain cell dysfunction.

Deficiency of folate and vitamin B12 is known to cause impaired methylation in the central nervous system, which may lead to neurological disease and other psychiatric disorders.

Toxic metal exposure can result in a wide array of common mental health disorders that can mimic many psychiatric «diseases» and thus lead to psychoactive prescription drug use or other unnecessary treatments.