Sentences with phrase «psychiatric diseases decades»

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During the past decade we've learned a lot about the function of these newborn neurons, revealing their possible role in psychiatric and neurological diseases such as mood disorders, schizophrenia and epilepsy.

Less than a decade ago, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis was first identified, a disease characterized by inflammation of the brain that causes acute psychiatric symptoms including psychosis.

On the other hand, Carpenter says, drug development for psychiatric disorders «has been stalemated for decades» due to our lack of understanding of the biological roots of psychiatric disease.

For the last decade, neuroscientists have been using the non-invasive brain - mapping technique functional called magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to examine activity patterns in human and animal brains in the resting state in order to figure out how different parts of the brain are connected and to identify the changes that occur in neurological and psychiatric diseases.

For many neurological and psychiatric diseases, novel therapeutics have been elusive for decades.