He has been a forceful advocate for integrating genetic and
psychiatric research with the field of prevention science.
Not exact matches
As Feast learned about his professor's
research, he realized that software built using Pentland's findings could help social workers see if they were building trust
with their clients, or determine which
psychiatric patients need emergency counseling.
23andMe and Ancestry both have
research partnerships
with pharmaceutical companies that explore things like the genetics of aging,
psychiatric disorders, or lupus.
Lifton has dedicated his career in
psychiatric research to investigating a variety of uniquely modern confrontations
with death and man's perennial struggle to overcome it.
In T - 4 an estimated 94,000
psychiatric patients (all of them «Aryan» and roughly half of them
with dementia) were suffocated in gas chambers or left to freeze in vats of ice water as part of a
research project on hypothermia.
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.
In response to the books» radical departure from current pediatric and
psychiatric advice, scores of concerned medical, lactation science and child development experts are speaking out against what they see as potentially dangerous child - care guidance, being offered up
with little in the way of credible supporting
research.
Randolph Nesse and Kent Berridge,
psychiatric investigators
with the Institute for Social
Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, reported in Science that medicine may never win the war against drug addiction because «it is rooted in the fundamental design of the human nervous system.»
Belger, the director of the UNC Neurocognition and Imaging
Research Laboratory, and recent UNC graduate student Joseph Shaffer, PhD, compared brain scans from more than 100 people
with schizophrenia against brain scans from people
with no
psychiatric diagnoses.
The authors also thank the individuals
with psychiatric disorders and their families who originally suggested this line of
research.
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.
New
research from the University of Missouri finds that for mental health courts to be successful, every professional engaged in the process should be aware of the relationship between
psychiatric symptoms and participant engagement within the system and connect participants
with comprehensive treatment and services as early as possible.
Researchers, led by Ralph Hingson, Sc.D., director of the NIAAA Division of Epidemiology and Prevention
Research, analyzed data from two waves of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), which is a series of large epidemiologic surveys that examine alcohol use and its co-occurrence
with drug use and related
psychiatric conditions.
A
research team, led by Brendan Depue, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for Neuroscience, trained 16 subjects — none of whom were previously diagnosed
with any
psychiatric problems — to recognize 40 pairs of visual stimuli.
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 the «critical flaw» in the new
research is that it doesn't fully account for the fact that women suffering from
psychiatric illnesses already have a greater risk of having children
with ASD, says Roy Perlis, a
psychiatric geneticist at Harvard University who consults for several biotechnology startups.
Together
with research into other immune - related genes in diseases such as Alzheimer's, the idea that immune processes are involved in some
psychiatric phenotypes is looking ever more solid.
This study also goes above and beyond prior
research as it shows that gambling youth are not only at risk of gambling problems, which are associated
with numerous adverse interpersonal, financial, criminal, and
psychiatric consequences, but also at risk for sex - related behaviors such as adolescent pregnancy / impregnation.»
Research suggests that between five and 15 per cent of the general population have had an occasional experience of hearing voices,
with as many as one per cent having more complex and regular voice - hearing experiences in the absence of any need for
psychiatric care.
«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.
For the qualitative
research study, Bertram served on the care team of eight adolescents
with histories of hospitalization for
psychiatric problems.
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.
As a result of this study, Dr. Kumar and her team are
researching the effect of specific
psychiatric comorbidities commonly seen in individuals
with ADHD on the development of obesity.
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.
Our results build on prior
research indicating that state same - sex marriage bans were associated
with increased rates of
psychiatric disorders19 and that health expenditures decreased following implementation of a same - sex marriage policy in Massachusetts.22 Our study contributes evidence on the association between same - sex marriage and mental health based on a robust analysis that controls for differences in state characteristics and for other state - level events that may affect suicide attempts, which are unlikely to systematically vary
with the same geographic and temporal pattern as same - sex marriage implementation.
Lee is a
psychiatric epidemiologist
with research interests in global autism, autism surveillance, and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Azad's
research focuses on promoting family - school partnerships for underserved children
with psychiatric and developmental disabilities.
Furthermore, her
research has also influenced the development of tests to assess, diagnose and treat people
with brain disorders resulting from traumatic injury and degenerative diseases, as well as from
psychiatric illness.
With components in clinical care, research and education, the Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics Program (PNP) team is dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals with a broad range of psychiatric illnes
With components in clinical care,
research and education, the
Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics Program (PNP) team is dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals
with a broad range of psychiatric illnes
with a broad range of
psychiatric illnesses.
Born in Washington, D.C. in December 1938, Dr. Snyder received his undergraduate and medical training at Georgetown University (MD 1962);
Research Associate training
with Julius Axelrod at the NIH (1963 - 1965); and
psychiatric training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital (1965 - 1968).
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.
To investigate whole - brain changes potentially associated
with these processes, we applied a magnetic resonance imaging technique novel to
psychiatric research, quantitative mapping of T1 relaxation in the rotating frame (T1ρ).
This new
research study out of Yale University suggests some important implications for those dealing
with schizophrenia, epilepsy, or other
psychiatric disorders.
Merzenich is now applying his basic
research findings to the development and testing of new tools for improving brain function in people
with a range of neurological and
psychiatric conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease or schizophrenia, or following brain injury.
Potential limits to external generalizability include the intensive
research assessments (up to 12 hours), the recruitment and treatment of patients in non — primary care academic settings, exclusion of participants
with substantial concurrent
psychiatric illness and drug abuse, and the limited time of treatment (16 weeks) given the chronicity and relapse potential in alcohol - dependent individuals.
Most of us conduct
research on basic processes of cognition and emotion
with the goal of helping to guide the development of interventions that can improve functioning in both healthy people and those
with psychiatric or neurodegenerative disease - or at least that's what we say in our grant applications!
It's not certain if some children
with other
psychiatric illnesses are being incorrectly lumped into the bipolar category, says Ellen Leibenluft, MD, head of the pediatric bipolar
research group at the National Institute of Mental Health and author of an editorial accompanying the study.
John Medina is a developmental molecular biologist
with special
research interests in the isolation and characterization of genes involved in human brain development and the genetics of
psychiatric disorders.
«Depression is an illness often associated
with strong social stigma, causing people to withdraw from their lives, intensifying the emotional symptoms of the illness, like sadness and feelings of worthlessness,» said Rakesh Jain, M.D., M.P.H., director of
psychiatric drug
research, R / D Clinical Research Center, Lake Jackson
research, R / D Clinical
Research Center, Lake Jackson
Research Center, Lake Jackson, Texas.
Worked
with research professionals to assess neurocognitive /
psychiatric status of potential patients, and review all medical, laboratory, and diagnostic data.
• Suggest improvements in the existing therapeutic process while keeping it updated and in line
with modern
psychiatric research.
About Blog The Journal of Neuropsychology publishes original contributions to scientific knowledge in neuropsychology including clinical and
research studies
with neurological,
psychiatric and psychological patient populations in all age groups, behavioural or pharmacological treatment regimes, cognitive experimentation and neuroimaging.
Thirdly, this
research implies that behaviours such as enuresis in many children
with cerebral palsy may be predictive of later
psychiatric problems and should not be considered to be merely a developmental delay.
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.
The Children's Interview for
Psychiatric Syndromes32 and the Children's Interview for
Psychiatric Syndromes — Parent Version33 are structured
psychiatric interviews designed to assess psychopathology according to DSM - IV criteria in clinical and epidemiological
research with youth aged 6 to 18 years.34 - 38 The Children's Interview for
Psychiatric Syndromes and the Children's Interview for
Psychiatric Syndromes — Parent Version assess 20 behavioral, anxiety, mood, and other syndromes as well as psychosocial stressors.
Adults
with research - identified childhood ADHD were significantly more likely than controls to have ≥ 1 comorbid
psychiatric disorder besides adult ADHD (56.9 % vs 34.9 %; adjusted OR, 2.6; 95 % CI, 1.8 — 3.8; P <.01).
There is also inconsistency regarding studying anxiety and depressive symptoms as a single «internalizing domain» or as two clinically - distinct presentations.6, 7 Similar issues
with how to classify symptoms are reflected in the lack of consensus as to whether emotional problems should be conceptualized and studied in a categorical versus dimensional fashion.8 Diagnostic criteria (DSM - IV - TR) 9 are often inappropriate for young children and do not capture developmentally - salient types of impairment (e.g., disruption in family routine), which make it difficult to apply
psychiatric research methods.
Dr. Brown's
research publications have included: Self - cutting and sexual risk among adolescents in intesive
psychiatric treatment; Promoting safer sex among HIV - positive youth
with hemophilia: Theory, intervention, and outcome; Predictors of retention among HIV / hemophilia health care professionals; Impact of sexual abuse on the HIV - risk - related behavior of adolescents in intensive
psychiatric treatment; Heroin use in adolescents and young adults admitted for drug detoxification; and Children and adolescents living
with HIV and AIDS: A review
His
research interests are focused on AIDS prevention and safer sex programs for adolescents
with psychiatric disorders.
S&M used to be considered a
psychiatric disorder by psychologists and researchers, but many years of
research indicate that there is no evidence of mental disorders among those who enjoy this type of sexual practice.2 Indeed, S&M is very common,
with about 1 in 10 adults across multiple surveys reporting fantasizing about or engaging in such behaviors.3 Researchers are also documenting some positive effects of S&M play, such as enhanced adrenaline and endorphin «highs» resulting from the infliction of pain that enhances sexual sensations.3 In Monika's case, however, she longs for more «vanilla» sex without the S&M and is concerned that her boyfriend will only be satisfied if she continues to play the sadist role.