Sentences with phrase «psychiatric disorder at»

Although more than a third of their children had a current psychiatric disorder at baseline and more than half had a lifetime history, some improvement was observed in the children in a relatively short time, ie, 3 months, and this occurred, in most cases, without the children receiving direct treatment.

Sixty - eight children had no psychiatric disorder at baseline.

Children with psychiatric disorder were more likely to have disorder 4 years later than those without psychiatric disorder at baseline (table ⇓).

More than one in four Americans suffer from a diagnosable psychiatric disorder at any given time, according to estimates from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

In part, these problems arise because the amount of psychiatric training that GPs receive in France is so inadequate as to be «catastrophic», says Jean - Claude Bisserbe, who studies psychiatric disorders at the Pitié - Salpetrière Hospital in Paris.

Children's psychiatric disorders at baseline and the 3 - month evaluation were established by direct interview of mothers and children using the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia — Present and Lifetime Version, 22 a widely used valid and reliable diagnostic assessment that generates DSM - IV diagnoses.

Of these children, all remained free of psychiatric disorders at the 3 - month follow - up if the maternal depression remitted, whereas 17 % (8/46) of children of mothers who remained depressed had an onset or relapse over this period (P =.05; Table 3).

He then pursued postdoctoral training in longitudinal diagnostic assessment of psychiatric disorders at Yale University from 2001 - 2003, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in psychotherapy studies in depression at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry at the Jewish General Hospital (ICFP - JGH) from 2003 - 2004.

Preschoolers with MDD at baseline compared with those with other psychiatric disorders were 2.3 and 5.5 times as likely, respectively, to be depressed instead of healthy and instead of having other psychiatric disorders at follow - up.

Not exact matches

A recent study presented at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting found that inpatients at a psychiatric hospital were prone to cyberbullying, and that the bullying was associated with an increased risk for mental health disorders among its victims.

Every year more and more students approach me at the end of the semester to confess that they have one or an - other psychiatric problem that is beyond their control, and to insist that because they are clinically depressed, bipolar or have attention deficit disorder they must be given extra weeks to hand in their work.

While at the University of Dorpat, he studied the clinical histories of specific patients and realized that identifying and delineating the patterns of symptoms created his organized method to categorize psychiatric disorders.

Hoarding is not an actual psychiatric diagnosis at this time, although it can be a symptom for diagnoses like obsessive - compulsive disorder or reactive attachment disorder.

Bullying has reached epidemic proportions and, according to at least forty years of psychological, psychiatric, sport, and neuroscientific research, is directly correlated with addiction, low self - esteem, depression, failure to reach potential, self - harm, athletes quitting sports, eating disorders, chronic illness and suicide.

As for those who believe that sleep - training harms infants, we have no research evidence that babies who are sleep - trained are at higher risk of behavioral and psychiatric disorders later in life.

Depressed mothers are often overwhelmed in the parenting role, have difficulty reading infant cues, struggle to meet the social and emotional needs of their children, and are less tolerant of child misbehaviour.7 Offspring of depressed mothers, particularly if they are exposed to depression in the first year of life, are more likely to be poorly attached to their caregivers, experience emotional and behavioural dysregulation, have difficulty with attention and memory, and are at greater risk for psychiatric disorders throughout childhood.8 Home visiting focuses on fostering healthy child development by improving parenting and maternal functioning.

Offspring of depressed mothers, particularly if they are exposed to depression in the first year of life, are more likely to be poorly attached to their caregivers, experience emotional and behavioural dysregulation, have difficulty with attention and memory, and are at greater risk for psychiatric disorders throughout childhood.

Women who have other psychiatric illnesses, such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, may be at greater risk for developing postpartum psychosis.

The deterioration of psychiatric and physical health caused by borderline personality disorder (BPD) rivals that of bipolar disorder, according to Mark Zimmerman, M.D., a researcher at Rhode Island Hospital.

Martin Maripuu, doctoral student at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Psychiatry, has studied the correlation between low cortisol levels, so - called hypocortisolism, and poor psychiatric and somatic health in patients with recurrent depressions or bipolar disorder.

A better understanding of these cells could eventually help explain how both seizures and certain psychiatric disorders can occur at the same time.

Bierut: I am trained as a psychiatrist, so I have my medical degree and specialized training in psychiatric disorders such as alcoholism, depression, schizophrenia, and I also have training in genetics so to understand how illnesses are transmitted through families, and so we are trying to look at how mental illnesses and addictions are transmitted in families and understand the underlying genetic causes of them.

To link, at a molecular level, a gene variant with biochemical changes and clinical symptoms related to a heritable psychiatric disorder, as in this present study, is therefore something of a breakthrough.

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have developed a new method to extract valuable symptom information from doctors» notes, allowing them to capture the complexity of psychiatric disorders that is missed by traditional sources of clinical data.

Indeed, psychiatric and neurological disorders are at least as genetically determined, and in many cases more so, than common diseases of other organ systems.

Two patterns of antecedent or «prodromal» psychiatric symptoms may help to identify young persons at increased risk of developing bipolar disorder (BD), according to a new analysis in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry.

► The Broad Institute received a huge donation — $ 650 million, the largest ever made for psychiatric research — from philanthropist and businessman Ted Stanley, to study the biological basis of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Emily Underwood wrote at ScienceInsider.

While all individuals in the TBI group were at least six months post-injury at the time of the study, the average length of time since injury was eight years with no history of any significant, clinically - diagnosed neurological or psychiatric disorders prior to their TBI.

People being treated for bipolar disorder and other psychiatric illnesses are at greater risk of attempting suicide, but physicians may now have tools to predict which of those individuals will attempt it and intervene early to prevent such tragedies from occurring.

Nailing the diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder may not be important in prescribing effective treatment, according to Mark Zimmerman, M.D., a clinical researcher at Rhode Island Hospital.

The findings provide a good starting point for the development of drugs aimed at treating memory - related and psychiatric disorders.

«Our work clearly shows that pathological gambling runs in families at a rate higher than for many other behavioral and psychiatric disorders,» says Donald W. Black, MD, professor of psychiatry in the UI Carver College of Medicine.

More than five million Americans suffer from bipolar disorder, a progressive psychiatric condition that, left untreated, puts sufferers at high risk for suicide.

Robert Power, first author from the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre at the IoPPN, said: «For most psychiatric disorders little is known about the underlying biological pathways that lead to illness.

«Children born to women after fertility treatment at greater risk of psychiatric disorders.»

The new finding is the latest evidence supporting a growing precision medicine model of psychiatric disease in which disruptions of certain genes during brain development contribute to a person's risk for multiple psychiatric disorders, with other genetic or epigenetic drivers, random developmental events, or environmental influences determining the specific disease an individual develops, said senior author Benjamin Cheyette, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry and a member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF.

«There seems to be a causal relationship between impaired sleep and some of the psychiatric symptomatology and disorders that we're seeing,» says Robert Stickgold, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who was not involved in this study.

This criminalization of drug addiction means, as Schnittker puts it, that «some inmates end up in prison at least partially because of their psychiatric disorders.»

Studies are looking at these hallucinogens to treat a number of otherwise intractable psychiatric disorders, including chronic depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and drug or alcohol dependency.

Rupert Lanzenberger's research group at the University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, under the direction of Siegfried Kasper, is one of the leading international research teams in the field of PET brain imaging in psychiatric disorders.

«PTSD may be one of the most preventable of psychiatric disorders,» said first author Laramie Duncan, who did part of the research while at the Broad Institute and is now at Stanford University.

«This was the first study that examined youth with psychiatric disorder by comparing what type of service they were receiving and whether that was associated with self - concept,» said Mark Ferro, the Canada Research Chair in Youth Mental Health and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Waterloo.

«Although we are currently looking at neurodegenerative disease, there is potential for the technology to be expanded to psychiatric diseases, chronic pain, seizure disorders and many other conditions affecting the brain and nervous system down the road.»

Roy Meadow at St James's University Hospital in Leeds says it is now mainly seen in children of parents with Münchhausen's syndrome by proxy, a psychiatric disorder in which people deliberately make others sick.

«They might not arise from the same brain areas, but these observations are of importance in efforts to understand hallucinations that commonly occur in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia,» says Matcheri Keshavan, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School.

Martha Farah, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, says it is crucial to figure out what neural circuitry is behind «free won't,» as she refers the ability to control impulses, because it is one «of the many psychiatric disorders for which self - control problems figure prominently.»

But new research presented at the American Diabetes Association's 74th Scientific Sessions ® shows that symptoms of depression in people with type 2 diabetes can be significantly reduced through interventions for «diabetes distress,» suggesting that much of what is being labeled as depression may not be a co-morbid psychiatric disorder after all, but rather a reaction to living with a stressful, complex disease that is often difficult to manage.

A six - week stay at a Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu can produce the same improvement in people with severe psychiatric disorders as a month - long course of standard drugs, say researchers in India.

«Importantly, we have identified psychiatric risks that may develop for extremely low birth weight survivors as they become adults, and this understanding will help us better predict, detect and treat mental disorders in this population,» said Dr. Ryan Van Lieshout, lead author of the study and a professor of psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences for the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster.

This type of variation can cause significant alterations to the genome and lead to psychiatric disorders, said Sebat, who is a professor and chief of the Beyster Center for Genomics of Neuropsychiatric Diseases at UC San Diego School of Medicine.