Sentences with phrase «says psychiatry professor»

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All three groups showed some improvement on cognitive measures when assessed after the ten weeks, says Dr. Caryn Lerman, the study's lead author and a psychiatry professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

«Short sleep was more important than any other factor in predicting subjects» likelihood of catching cold,» said Aric Prather, assistant professor of psychiatry at UC San Francisco and the study's lead author.

«It's all about shaping the child's behavior,» says Dr. Andrea Vazzana, clinical assistant professor of child psychiatry at New York University Langone's Child Study Center.

But psychiatry professor Rense Lange said the CEOs» results — compared with the answers provided by some 750,000 others who've taken the online test — reveal that the CEOs are wired differently than everyone else.

«We were a bit surprised by the magnitude» of the cognitive effects, says Dr. Helen Lavretsky, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA who oversaw the study, in a New York Times article.

«The developing brain is a vulnerable brain,» said Anthony Feinstein, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto who studies multiple sclerosis and how cannabis impacts cognition.

The way that Alcoholics Anonymous members share their experiences of suffering is akin to what happens in a military unit or a musical group or a family, where the idea of «we're all in this together» becomes particularly strong, said Keith Humphreys, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University.

«Organic whole milk yogurt is an incredibly satisfying, traditional food - something I think many Americans are starting to embrace,» says Drew Ramsey, MD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and one of psychiatry's leading proponents of using dietary changes to help balance moods, sharpen brain function and improve mental health.

«A diagnosis of depression can be present when there is a clustering of multiple depressive symptoms (including low mood or loss of interest in usual activities) that are present most of the time for at least two weeks,» says David Goldston, director of the Duke Center for the Study of Suicide Prevention and Intervention in Durham and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University.

Daniel Siegel, psychiatry professor at UCLA and director of theMindsight Institute, says there's a better way — and it starts with knowing what the teen brain is trying to accomplish.

«It's kind of like weight training,» said Richard Davidson, PhD, psychology and psychiatry professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, director of the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, and founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds.

«A sensitive mother can pick up on different kinds of cries and facial expressions,» says Paul C. Holinger, professor of psychiatry at Rush - Presbyterian - St.

Kyle Pruett, clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale Medical School, has another view and says that fathers are «the single greatest untapped resource» in the lives of children.

«Every experience of being pregnant is different,» says Lucy A. Hutner, an assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Rebecca L. Hashim, an attending psychologist at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center and assistant professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in Bronx, N.Y., says parents often talk themselves out of reporting such information because they believe it's not their problem or they convince themselves that maybe they're just imagining it and don't investigate further.

«People may be teetering in unstable relationships and this pushes them over the edge,» says Louis Gamino, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the Texas A&M College of Medicine, in Temple, and the co-author of When Your Baby Dies.

Dr. John Walkup, professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork - Presbyterian Hospital, said values are often broken up into «hard» and «soft.»

«The benefits a child receives from behavioral treatment are strongly influenced by the ability of the parent to consistently implement the program plan,» says Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine.

That is why, when a mother (and it is the mother in most cases) comes in with a screaming baby, we consider her a patient, as well,» says Lester, who is also a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Brown University School of Medicine.

«It increases their sense of security because they know what's coming next,» says Jean M. Thomas, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, in Washington, D.C. «The more secure toddlers feel, the more they can focus on things like learning, exploring, and playing.»

Do some deep - breathing exercises with guided imagery, says Lucy A. Hutner, an assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center.

«If you have a depressed mother, you ought to do everything you can to get her better, because there's a double effect,» says study author Myrna Weissman, a professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City.

«The brains of babies born before their due dates usually are not fully developed,» said senior investigator Cynthia Rogers, MD, an assistant professor of child psychiatry who treats patients at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

«Health providers and women themselves think that once they have a healthy baby after a loss, all would be fine and that any anxiety, fears, or depression would go away, but that is simply not the case,» says study researcher Emma Robertson Blackmore, PhD, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

«There are things that men and women do differently when staying at home,» says Kyle Pruett, M.D., a professor of child psychiatry at Yale University whose book, The Nurturing Father (Warner Books, 2000), is based on a 1983 study of 18 families in which dads cared primarily for the children.

Families who can't afford enough diapers risk diaper rash and urinary tract infections that can lead to hospital visits, says Megan Smith, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine.

«This is the landscape of reality in 2009,» says Christine Moutier, associate clinical professor of psychiatry and assistant dean for student affairs at the UCSD School of Medicine.

Isolating yourself is a danger sign for depression, says Christine Moutier, associate clinical professor of psychiatry and assistant dean for student affairs at the UCSD School of Medicine.

«The ability to provide a treatment that can increase stress resiliency at the cellular level, and hopefully also the behavioral level, would be a much welcomed addition to our antidepressant armamentarium,» says Gerard Sanacora, a professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and director of the Yale Depression Research Program.

Subjects who stopped smoking seem to partially recover their cortical thickness for each year without smoking,» says the study's lead author Dr. Sherif Karama, assistant professor of psychiatry at McGill University, psychiatrist at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and an affiliate of the Montreal Neurological Institute.

* The Posters on the Hill exhibit typically picks just one or two research projects per state to participate in the event, said Mark Cohen, Kerr's faculty advisor and a professor - in - residence of psychiatry in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.

«The women who had a diagnosis of a sleep disorder recorded in their medical record most likely had more severe presentations,» said Aric Prather, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at UCSF and senior author of the study.

But while these functions might be hampered in people who have RSMEs, Grafman, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University, says there's another side to this phenomenon.

«Cerebellar interactions with the frontal cortex in cognitive processes has never been shown before in animal models,» says Parker, UI assistant professor of psychiatry and the first faculty hire of the new Iowa Neuroscience Institute.

«For a long time, we've thought of brain imaging studies as mainly a way to corroborate or confirm aspects of brain function and pathology that we had already identified from studying a patient's behavior,» said Aysenil Belger, PhD, professor of psychiatry and psychology at UNC and the study's senior author.

«We can improve our tailoring of treatment to each patient if we know who among patients taking methadone treatment is at high risk for opioid relapse,» said Dr. Zena Samaan, principal author of the study and an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences of McMaster's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine.

«They bounce from one thing to another,» says Sanjaya Saxena, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles.

«We've known that teens overall are becoming less likely to engage in risky behaviors, and that's good news,» said first author Richard A. Grucza, PhD, a professor of psychiatry.

«Now that we have more evidence that serotonin is a chemical that appears affected early in cognitive decline, we suspect that increasing serotonin function in the brain could prevent memory loss from getting worse and slow disease progression,» says Gwenn Smith, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of geriatric psychiatry and neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Matching up depressed behavior with hippocampal activity is «pretty amazing,» says Helen Mayberg, professor of psychiatry and neurology at Emory University in Atlanta.

Until this decade, many adults with autism went undiagnosed, and those who had the social prowess to forge romantic relationships were considered «vanishingly rare,» says Matthew Lerner, assistant professor of psychology, psychiatry and pediatrics at Stony Brook University in New York.

The findings, reported in two recent studies, also point to a possible way to make people behave in less selfish and more altruistic ways, said senior author Marco Iacoboni, a UCLA psychiatry professor.

Feusner, who also is a professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said if the study's results are replicated, OCD treatment could someday start with a brain scan.

«We believe that early treatment and self - recognition of depression are essential for reducing suffering in young people, and our results validate the overall effectiveness of the program,» says Karen Swartz, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and founder of ADAP at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«Most expenses from social problems are concentrated in a small segment of the population,» said Avshalom Caspi, Edward M. Arnett professor of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral sciences at Duke.

«By learning how tau spreads, we may be able to stop it from jumping from neuron to neuron,» said Karen Duff, PhD, professor in the department of pathology and cell biology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain) and professor of psychiatry (at New York State Psychiatric Institute.)

«The sense of self is built up from a representation of internal states,» says Hugo Critchley, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Sussex in England who was not involved with the study.

«Not everyone that tests positive for toxoplasmosis will have aggression issues,» said Dr. Emil Coccaro, a professor and chairman of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the University of Chicago, who led the study.

«This study suggests many reasons some children may be at extreme risk of severe physical abuse and murder, which points to different preventive actions,» said lead author Dr. Robert Hanlon, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine neuropsychologist.

«The blood test included a selection of 15 measures of immune and hormonal system imbalances as well as evidence of oxidative stress,» said Diana O. Perkins, MD, MPH, professor of psychiatry in the UNC School of Medicine and corresponding author of the study.