Sentences with phrase «schizophrenia and bipolar disease»

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Conditions that cause the brain's receptors to stop functioning properly are often mistaken for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder because these diseases are associated with a decrease in activity of the NMDA receptors, which control how someone thinks, makes decisions, and perceives the world around them.

I had access to my relative risks of psychiatric diseases such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

► 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.

One of the biggest surprises was that half of the 10 leading causes of disability were from psychiatric conditions: depression, alcoholism, bipolar disease, schizophrenia and obsessive - compulsive disorder.

For the 2.2 million Americans with schizophrenia and the 5.7 million Americans with bipolar disorder, the increased prevalence of obesity and its related diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease is particularly disconcerting.

The Broad Institute, a collaborative biomedical research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has received a $ 650 million donation from philanthropist and businessman Ted Stanley to study the biological basis of diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

One of the biggest challenges will be to unite these disparate methodologies to tease apart the normal and abnormal working of the brain in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and the like, diseases that devastate the lives of so many and are so often associated with early death.

The conditions included high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, chronic lung disease, epilepsy, fibromyalgia, inflammatory bowel disease, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

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

Through this research, a rough account is emerging of how HERV - W could trigger diseases like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and MS.. Although the body works hard to keep its ERVs under tight control, infections around the time of birth destabilize this tense standoff.

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

ENIGMA discovers factors that affect the progression on Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, schizophrenia, depression and bipolar illness, HIV / AIDS, methamphetamine abuse, autism, and childhood brain disorders.

Fallin's interests are in applying genetic epidemiology methods to studies of neuropsychiatric disorders including autism, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder and in developing applications and methods for epigenetic epidemiology, particularly as applied to mental health and development.

The identification of disease signatures will enable screens of small molecule libraries to delineate molecular targets that modulate these disease signatures and identify new diagnostic and therapeutic leads for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

We are also interested in the human diseases that affect learning and memory, including Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and ADHD.

During the clinical component of the course — which delves into pathology, or the study of disorders / diseases in bodily tissues — he was struck by how there's no physical sign of what's wrong in autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other maladies of the nervous system.

Problems with another gene, which codes for catechol - O - methyl transferase (COMT), could interfere with the metabolism of dopamine, increase the risk of schizophrenia and affect the frequency of manic cycles in bipolar disease.

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

The researchers examined 92 studies across four continents and 16 different countries, including the US, UK, France, Australia and Sweden.10 per cent of people with SMI had cardiovascular disease, with rates slightly higher in schizophrenia (11.8 per cent) and depression (11.7 per cent) than bipolar disorder (8.4 per cent), with a substantially increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease over time.

Led by King's College London, the research shows that people with severe mental illness (SMI), including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression, have a 53 per cent higher risk for having cardiovascular disease than healthy controls, with a 78 per cent higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease over the longer term.

This paper, Microbiome, inflammation, epigenetic alterations, and mental diseases, sums it up perfectly, reporting that recent findings show that the onset and development of mental diseases such as autism, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression can not be well described by the one - gene / one - disease approach:

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.

Omega - 3s are used in the treatment of depression, ADHD, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, osteoporosis, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, inflammatory bowel disesases, skin conditions, asthma, macular degeneration, fatigue, menstrual pain, and many types of cancers.

Studies done in 2010 showed a link to gluten sensitivity and psychiatric brain disorders like schizophrenia, 3 acute mania, 4 and bipolar disorders 5 without celiac disease (gluten allergy).

The Journal covers the latest research on the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, addiction, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, dementia, Alzheimer's disease and more.

(Vida Press, 2012) For the last 20 or so years, brain research has helped doctors and therapists understand that the serious mental illnesses of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are diseases of brain function.

She manages many disorders including but not limited to: depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disease and schizophrenia.

Exclusion criteria were significant non-HIV medical disease, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, contraindication to imipramine, current substance abuse, significant cognitive impairment (Mini-Mental State Examination8 score < 25), inability to speak English, and concurrent psychiatric treatment aside from HIV self - help or support groups.

There are things in there that I think most of us would agree are brain diseases, like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and maybe some very severe depression and Alzheimer's disease.