Other neurological and
psychiatric disorders associated with mercury include narcolepsy, obsessive - compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, Tourette syndrome and borderline personality disorder, as well as neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis.
Using a nonhuman primate model, their findings provide insight into the mechanisms of human
psychiatric disorders associated with emotion dysregulation, such as PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and schizophrenia.
This work has important implications for developing novel treatment strategies for
psychiatric disorders associated with social cognitive deficits, including autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia.
BACKGROUND Bipolar disorder is a familial
psychiatric disorder associated with reduced white matter integrity, but it is not clear whether such abnormalities are present in young unaffected relatives
Or the patient may have a co-morbid
psychiatric disorder associated with impulsive drug use — they would take any centrally - acting drug, any drug that alters their consciousness, impulsively.
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.
Along with
associated symptoms, there are a number of
psychiatric disorders that are commonly found in children and adolescents who have been traumatized.
Govoni says that when patients are treated for
psychiatric disease, the creative impulses often
associated with bipolar
disorder, dementia, or even depression may fall by the wayside.
These results can also be used by researchers studying the genetic underpinnings of mental
disorders, as they indicate that the same genes might be
associated with increased risk for various
psychiatric disorders.»
This shifting view, its advocates argue, reduces the stigma
associated with
psychiatric disorders.
While previous research has indicated that sleep disruption and
psychiatric disorders often occur together, this latest study is the first to causally demonstrate that sleep loss triggers excessive anticipatory brain activity
associated with anxiety, researchers said.
A calculation made by Dr Jensen — based on a 33 % overall increased risk of
psychiatric disorders in children born to women with fertility problems and on the proportion of children born in Denmark following fertility treatment — suggests that 1.9 % of all diagnosed
psychiatric disorders in Denmark are
associated with the mother's infertility.
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.
Risk for suicide attempts and violent offending by children appears to be
associated with their parents»
psychiatric disorders, according to an article published online by JAMA Psychiatry.
This view is consistent with Schnittker's finding that «childhood adversities have been linked to adult
psychiatric disorders» and that such hardships have been linked to subsequent criminal behavior: «childhood disadvantage is
associated with both incarceration and adult
psychiatric disorders.»
«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 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.
They found that increasing maternal C - reactive protein levels were significantly
associated with development of schizophrenia in offspring and remained significant after adjusting for potential confounders such as parental history of
psychiatric disorders, twin / singleton birth, location of birth, and maternal socioeconomic status.
Several metabolic and
psychiatric diseases are
associated with circadian rhythm and sleep disturbances, and this research opens the doors toward an improved understanding of these
disorders.
We know certain patterns of brain activity are
associated with certain
psychiatric disorders.»
He also had close family members with problems
associated with the brain, including relatives who developed invasive brain tumors or
psychiatric disorders.
In recent years, the etiology of
psychiatric disorders has been increasingly
associated with epigenetic dysregulation, especially the effects of DNA methylation.
The researchers found that in 1,337 people admitted to
psychiatric hospitals before 1998, the fathers» ages were strongly
associated with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or a related
disorder.
For example, genetic association studies of
psychiatric disorders have located gene variants
associated with the
disorders, but have been able to explain only a small percentage of their heritability.
LOWRY: There are certain
psychiatric disorders like post-traumatic stress
disorder, or PTSD, and depression that seem to be
associated with increased inflammation, a ramped - up immune response in the body and in the brain.
What's more, the changes Cha and his colleagues saw were «much greater than the brain changes or abnormalities
associated with
psychiatric disorders that we usually observe in children or adults,» he said.
Depression, a life - threatening
psychiatric disorder, lies at the confluence of biochemical, hormonal, immunological, and neurodegenerative variables, which intersect to generate the pro-inflammatory state with which depression is
associated.
Previous studies have shown that decreased volume in the hippocampus is
associated with neurological and
psychiatric disorders.
The relationship between childhood
psychiatric disorder and exclusion from school has not been frequently studied, but both are
associated with poor adult outcomes.
Intellectual disability (ID) affects 143/10 000 children1 and is
associated with a range of comorbid health conditions.2 — 4 It is heterogeneous, 5 and clustering of some medical conditions may be
associated with particular
disorders such as Down syndrome6 or Prader - Willi syndrome.7 While epilepsy and sensory impairments often occur in association with specific syndromes or more severe cognitive impairment, conditions such as fractures or obesity may develop as secondary to medication use, nutritional deficiency or lack of mobility.2 Consequently, children with ID may face greater health challenges than typically developing children and use healthcare systems more frequently.8, 9 Mental health problems are also common in people with ID.10 For instance, in a Canadian adolescent and adult population with ID, a high proportion of hospitalisations was attributed to the presence of
psychiatric conditions.11
Such abuse is
associated with greater
psychiatric comorbidity but not with the overall severity of the eating
disorder.
Children who do not complete high school, for example, are more likely to become teenage parents, to be unemployed, and to be incarcerated, all of which exact heavy social and economic costs.5 A growing body of research shows that child poverty is
associated with neuroendocrine dysregulation that may alter brain function and may contribute to the development of chronic cardiovascular, immune, and
psychiatric disorders.6 The economic cost of child poverty to society can be estimated by anticipating future lost productivity and increased social expenditure.
Future articles will address persistence and change in
psychiatric disorders (including onset, remission, and recurrence), comorbidity,
associated functional impairments, and the risk and protective factors related to these
disorders and impairments.
Treating a mother's depression is
associated with improvement of depression and other
disorders in her child.24 The STAR * D — Child (Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression — Child) project is a study that began in December 2001 and followed 151 mother - child pairs in 8 primary care and 11
psychiatric outpatient clinics across 7 regional centers in the United States.
The
disorder is
associated with specific eating
disorder psychopathology (eg, dysfunctional body shape and weight concerns), 4
psychiatric comorbidity, and significant health and psychosocial impairments.5 Binge eating
disorder is also linked with overweight and obesity.6
As they age, they may become suicidal, addicted to alcohol or other drugs, enmeshed in violent relationships, and unable to care for their children.64, 76 Delinquent females also engage in sexual activity at an earlier age than nonoffenders, placing them at greater risk for unwanted pregnancy and human immunodeficiency virus.78 Understanding
psychiatric morbidity and
associated risk factors among delinquent females could help us to improve treatment and reduce the cycle of
disorder and dysfunction.
Future studies may investigate how sleep — wake cycles are linked to HRV and whether
psychiatric disorders are
associated with altered diurnal patterns of HRV.
Non-psychotic, non-major affective
psychiatric disorders in adolescent boys were
associated with greater schizophrenia risk
BPD and BD are two
psychiatric diagnoses that despite differing aetiologies have a shared phenotype; both
disorders are
associated with mood instability, impulsivity, suicidal behaviour and low mood.
It points out that these kinds of problems are among the most common child and adolescent
psychiatric disorders and are
associated with significant impairment,» Professor Sanders said.
In addition, it may be possible to prevent the development of suicidal behavior and other
psychiatric symptoms by helping parents of at - risk youths to modify their child - rearing behavior.50 Because parental
psychiatric disorders are
associated with maladaptive parenting and offspring suicidality, it may also be possible to prevent the onset of suicidal behavior by improving the recognition and treatment of parental
psychiatric disorders.
Are early - life antecedents of suicide mortality
associated with
psychiatric disorders and suicidal ideation in midlife?.
To examine whether the extent of common
psychiatric disorder between ages 18 and 25 is
associated with negative economic and educational outcomes at age 30, before and after controlling for confounding factors.
Individual
psychiatric disorders have been shown to be
associated with negative economic and educational outcomes, but few studies have addressed the relationship between the total extent of
psychiatric disorder and life outcomes.
Conversely, a high level of maladaptive parental behavior during childhood and adolescence was
associated with risk for suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood after parental
psychiatric disorders were controlled (OR, 2.91; 95 % CI, 1.36 - 9.37).
Presence of
psychiatric disorders is
associated with poorer colon cancer outcomes in older adults
A sexual assault history was
associated with increased prevalence of lifetime suicide attempt after controlling for sex, age, education, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and
psychiatric disorder.
Afifi, T.O., Enns, M.W., Cox, B.J., Asmundson, G.J.G., Stein, M.B. and Sareen, J. (2008) Population attributable fractions of
psychiatric disorders and suicidal ideation and attempts
associated with adverse childhood events in the general population.
However, age,
psychiatric disorder during adolescence, and parental
psychiatric symptoms were not significantly
associated with suicidal behavior during late adolescence or early adulthood after maladaptive parental behavior was controlled statistically.
Considered together with our findings indicating that parental
psychiatric disorders were significantly
associated with offspring suicide attempts before, but not after, maladaptive parenting was controlled statistically, the present findings are consistent with the inference that maladaptive parenting mediated the association between parental
psychiatric disorders and offspring suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood.