Sentences with phrase «psychiatric disorders including»

Early childhood adversity is associated with increased risk for a range of comorbid psychiatric disorders including substance use and addiction, and a growing body of work has demonstrated that childhood maltreatment is associated with functional and structural changes in these same systems.

Micronutrients are increasingly used to treat psychiatric disorders including attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), mood disorders, stress, and anxiety.

The authors said that the findings of the study should be able to help and contribute to understanding psychiatric disorders including sleep disorder and neurological illnesses.

Our marmoset work provides a fundamental understanding of the processes behind the symptoms of psychiatric disorders including depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety.

Dr. Tarazi's Psychiatric Neuroscience Laboratory, which was established in 2004, has a long - standing interest in understanding the pathology and neurobiology of psychiatric disorders including Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, depression, and ADHD.

Pathological guilt can be a symptom of clinical depression, as well as other psychiatric disorders including anxiety, obsessive - compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder.

New research has identified the mechanisms that trigger disruption in the brain's communication channels linked to symptoms in psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia.

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It was during this time that Dr. Chandra came to appreciate the role of environmental toxins, chronic infections, and nutritional deficiencies in the development and progression of many disorders, including some chronic psychiatric conditions.

The University of Michigan Composite International Diagnostic Interview (UM - CIDI), a revised version of the CIDI, 23 was used to measure the prevalence of the following 4 psychiatric disorders, as described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition, revised: 24 anxiety disorder (including one or more of social phobia, simple phobia, agoraphobia, panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder); major depressive disorder; alcohol abuse or dependence; and externalizing problems that included one or more of illicit drug abuse or dependence and antisocial behaviour.

The prognosis for children with conduct problems is poor, with outcomes in adulthood including criminal behaviour, alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic violence, child abuse and a range of psychiatric disorders.

The prognosis for children with conduct problems is poor, with outcomes in adulthood including criminal behaviour, alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic violence, child abuse and a range of psychiatric disorders [3 — 6].

Postpartum affective disorder (AD), including postpartum depression (PPD), affects more than one in two hundred women with no history of prior psychiatric episodes, and raises the risk of later affective disorder for those women, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine by Marie - Louise Rasmussen from Statens Serum Institut, Denmark, and colleagues.

It is really important to know that many people with psychiatric disorders, including SM can not always seek treatment early on for a variety of reasons.

«Our findings contribute to a growing body of evidence that immune system dysfunction, including inflammation, may be involved in the pathophysiology of major psychiatric disorders in some individuals.

Dr. McCoy and colleagues used the method to characterize 3,619 adults with psychiatric hospitalizations across a range of disorders, including schizophrenia, anxiety, major depressive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder.

The participants included 270 community dwelling, cognitively normal men and women, between 62 and 90 years old, with no active psychiatric disorders.

The brain - on - a-chip could be useful for studying any number of neurological and psychiatric diseases, including drug addiction, post traumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injury.

Friedman said warning labels similar to those on cigarette packaging should be used to communicate alcohol's risks, which include cancer, heart disease, liver disease and psychiatric disorders.

Dentate gyrus dysfunction also is implicated in psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia.

Risperidone is used to treat various psychiatric disorders in adults and children, including autism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, and prescribing rates for children have increased nearly eight-fold over the last two decades.

It is known that during this teenaged phase of brain development, adolescents are particularly vulnerable to psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, depression and drug addiction.

Subjects included 119 healthy volunteers and 26,683 patients with a variety of psychiatric conditions such as brain trauma, bipolar disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia / psychotic disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

The authors suggest that the intricate balance between the signaling of neurons in these three brain regions may be crucial for normal social behavior in humans, and that disruption may contribute to various psychiatric conditions, including autistic spectrum disorders.

Past studies have shown that when an expectant mother exposes herself to alcohol or drug abuse or she experiences some trauma or illness, her baby may later develop a psychiatric disorder, including some forms of autism or post-traumatic stress disorder, later in life.

Statistically significant hazard ratios for specific groups of psychiatric disorders were found for schizophrenia and psychoses (1.27, 1.16 - 1.38), affective disorders (1.32, 1.25 - 1.39), anxiety and other neurotic disorders (1.37, 1.32 - 1.42), mental and behavioural syndromes including eating disorders (1.13, 1.04 - 1.24), mental retardation (1.28, 1.17 - 1.40), mental development disorders including autism spectrum disorders (1.22, 1.16 - 1.28), and behavioural and emotional disorders including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)(1.40, 1.34 - 1.46), when compared with rates in naturally conceived children.

The trial was conducted for 12 weeks on about 8,000 long - term smokers and included equal subgroups of those without as well as with psychiatric disorders.

Studies indicate that gender differences in psychiatric disorders, including addiction, are influenced by estrogen, one of the primary female sex hormones.

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.

Few options currently exist for treating the debilitating «negative» symptoms of severe psychiatric disorders, which include slowed movement, blunted affect, and social withdrawal.

However, it is known to reside in brain tissue, and has been linked to several psychiatric diseases, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and suicidal behavior.

It is characterized by an inflammation of the brain, which can result in neurological and psychiatric symptoms, including psychoses, epileptic seizures and movement disorders.

Imbalances between the two have been implicated in psychiatric disorders, including depression.

Others have previously speculated that the biological basis of psychiatric disorders such as PTSD includes a shift in the balance between different signalling systems in the brain but none has yet proved it.

Eleven patients had additional psychiatric or behavioral problems, including attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, Asperger's syndrome / autism spectrum disorder and bipolar disorder.

«There is a fascinating association between Toxoplasma infection and psychiatric diseases including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

«Postpartum depression can develop from a number of things including hormonal changes, psychological adjustment to motherhood, social support, and a history of psychiatric disorders.»

Particular interests of Dr. Cohen's group include abnormalities of bioenergetics and mitochondrial function in psychiatric and mood disorders and abnormalities of connectivity and myelination, especially in those with schizophrenia.

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

Damage to the myelination process is believed to contribute to a range of neurological and psychiatric disorders, including autism and intellectual disability.

He also had close family members with problems associated with the brain, including relatives who developed invasive brain tumors or psychiatric disorders.

Ms. Kopeski's current interests include promoting healthy lifestyles and reducing risk of metabolic syndrome in people with psychiatric disorders through use of motivational interviewing and a shared decision - making model.

These include osteoporosis, cancer, heart disease, hypertension, pain sensitivity, and psychiatric disorders.

Charlestown and Belmont, MA - Teamsters Local 25 president Sean O'Brien recently presented more than $ 300,000 to local non-profits, including a $ 50,000 donation to McLean Hospital which will be used to continue groundbreaking autism research and support the McLean - Franciscan Child and Adolescent Inpatient Program at Franciscan Children's Hospital, the only Massachusetts inpatient child psychiatric program with a sub-specialty in the treatment of youth with co-occurring autism spectrum disorders in psychiatric crisis.

Such changes in neuronal function are likely to play important roles in all normal physiological processes in the brain and are critical for development of a variety of brain diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, epilepsy, drug dependence and other neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Dr. Pope is also a well - recognized clinician with decades of experience in treating patients with psychiatric disorders, including patients with severe mood disorders and psychotic disorders.

Physiology & Pharmacology research includes substance abuse, neurodegenerative disorders, psychiatric illness, pediatric development and pharmacology.

The focus of Dr. Smoller's research interests has been 1) understanding the genetic and environmental determinants of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan; 2) integrating genomics and neuroscience to unravel how genes affect brain structure and function; and 3) using «big data», including electronic health records and genomics, to advance precision medicine.

A protein called disrupted - in - schizophrenia 1, encoded by the DISC1 gene, has been established as a genetic risk factor for a wide array of psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression,...

This work has important implications for developing novel treatment strategies for psychiatric disorders associated with social cognitive deficits, including autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia.

The PGC is currently genotyping new samples to further study schizophrenia and additional psychiatric diseases, including autism and bipolar disorder.