Sentences with phrase «schizophrenia research at»

«While a great deal of money has been invested in developing schizophrenia drugs, a similar investment hasn't been made to develop biomarkers that could improve the reliability and consistency of test results,» said Daniel Javitt, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry and Director of the Division of Experimental Therapeutics at CUMC, Director of schizophrenia research at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, and Co-Principal Investigator of the study.

«We're interested in determining patients» sleep patterns,» says John Kane, head of schizophrenia research at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. Kane, who is conducting a Proteus - funded pilot study, says, «For certain mental illnesses, changes in sleep patterns are an early sign that an illness is accelerating.»

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Danielle A. Schlosser, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director of the Digital Health Core in the Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the NIH - funded Digital Research and Interventions for Volitional Enhancement (DRIVE) lab at UCSF Dr. Schlosser's research program's goal is to design, develop, and investigate neuroscience - informed digital health solutions to improve the lives of people with schizophrenia and depResearch and Interventions for Volitional Enhancement (DRIVE) lab at UCSF Dr. Schlosser's research program's goal is to design, develop, and investigate neuroscience - informed digital health solutions to improve the lives of people with schizophrenia and depresearch program's goal is to design, develop, and investigate neuroscience - informed digital health solutions to improve the lives of people with schizophrenia and depression.

Drs. Jentsch, London, and Ringach are researchers at UCLA who used non-human primates in their research on schizophrenia, addiction, and visual processing.

These characteristics appeared regardless of whether the people had suffered from depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or no disorder at all (Brain Research, doi.org/cvrpjk).

A damaging chemical imbalance in the brain may contribute to schizophrenia, according to research presented at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Annual Meeting in Hollywood, Florida.

When I got my first faculty position, at the University of Texas, I wanted to continue researching schizophrenia.

Research presented at a Berlin psychiatric conference shows teenage cannabis use hastens onset of schizophrenia in vulnerable individuals

He first began researching possible autoimmune causes of schizophrenia in the early 2010s while working at the National Institutes of Health and published early papers on the subject.

Dr Rachael Panizzo, Programme Manager for Mental Health and Addiction at the Medical Research Council, added: «This large study provides further evidence of the complex genetics underlying schizophrenia.

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have identified a molecule in the brain that triggers schizophrenia - like behaviors, brain changes and global gene expression in an animal model.

«We knew this gene's alteration likely contributed to schizophrenia and we wanted to better understand how,» said Mei, chairman of the Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Neuroscience and a corresponding author of the study in the journal PNAS.

► 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.

Scientists of the Transfaculty Research Platform «Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences» (MCN) at the University of Basel and the Psychiatric University Clinics have now described a network of genes that controls fundamental properties of neurons and is related to working memory, brain activity and schizophrenia.

Although effective new drugs based on such research may be decades away, near - term payoffs could include ways of identifying teens at risk of developing schizophrenia early on, or tools that help physicians better manage their patients» medications, added Steve McCarroll, director of genetics research at Broad.

But bringing autism and schizophrenia back together — at least in a research setting — could generate new leads for characterizing and addressing both.

Research has established that people with confirmed psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia are at increased risk of cardio - metabolic disease.

The research, published in Genetics in Medicine, is»... part of ongoing efforts among schizophrenia researchers to predict and prevent illness at the earliest stages possible,» says senior author Dr. Anne Bassett, Clinician - Scientist in CAMH's Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute and Canada Research Chair in Schizophrenia Genetics and Genomic Diresearch, published in Genetics in Medicine, is»... part of ongoing efforts among schizophrenia researchers to predict and prevent illness at the earliest stages possible,» says senior author Dr. Anne Bassett, Clinician - Scientist in CAMH's Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute and Canada Research Chair in Schizophrenia Genetics and Genomic DiResearch Institute and Canada Research Chair in Schizophrenia Genetics and Genomic DiResearch Chair in Schizophrenia Genetics and Genomic Disorders.

«Low birth weight and preterm birth have been proposed as risk factors in schizophrenia in general, but past studies have not shown a large effect on risk,» says Dr. Bassett, who is also the Director of the Clinical Genetics Research Program at CAMH.

Writing in the September 15 issue of the journal Schizophrenia Research, a team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System analyzed all eight published longitudinal studies of mortality in schizophrenia that met their strict research criteria and found that the mean standardized mortality ratio — a measure of the mortality rate in schizophrenia — had increased 37 percent from pre-1970s studies to post-1970s Research, a team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System analyzed all eight published longitudinal studies of mortality in schizophrenia that met their strict research criteria and found that the mean standardized mortality ratio — a measure of the mortality rate in schizophrenia — had increased 37 percent from pre-1970s studies to post-1970s research criteria and found that the mean standardized mortality ratio — a measure of the mortality rate in schizophrenia — had increased 37 percent from pre-1970s studies to post-1970s studies.

New research by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh provides an unprecedented level of resolution and insight into disturbances in cortical GABAergic microcircuits, which are thought to underlie cognitive impairments in schizophrenia.

Dr. Paus, a prominent researcher and pioneer in the field of population neuroscience, strongly cautioned that more research is needed to determine whether lower cortical thickness actually increases the probability of schizophrenia in at - risk males later in life.

In 2001 Kevin Guskiewicz, research director of the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sent a 10 - page questionnaire to 3,500 retirees, asking about medical conditions from asthma to schizophrenia.

In a 2007 meta - analysis of 42 studies, psychiatrist Fuller Torrey at the Stanley Medical Research Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, found that people with schizophrenia are nearly three times as likely to have antibodies to toxo compared with those who don't have the condition.

A research group led by Ryota Hashimoto, an associate professor at Osaka University, Naohiro Okada, a graduate student at the University of Tokyo, and Kiyoto Kasai, a professor at the University of Tokyo, replicated prior findings that the volume of globus pallidus (one of the basal ganglia in the brain) in schizophrenia was larger than that in healthy subjects.

A «brain training» iPad game developed and tested by researchers at the University of Cambridge may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at work and living independently, according to research.

He was also awarded the Helen Dorris Fellowship in schizophrenia research in the department of neuropharmacology at The Scripps Research Inresearch in the department of neuropharmacology at The Scripps Research InResearch Institute.

His research looked at only a small sample of subjects, 16 with schizophrenia and 16 without.

In research published in the Schizophrenia Bulletin, scientists at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Stanley Research Program at Sheppard Pratt Health System, also found a viral form of Lactobacillus, the phiadh phage, which infects bacteria and alters their replication, was significantly higher in individuals with schizoresearch published in the Schizophrenia Bulletin, scientists at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Stanley Research Program at Sheppard Pratt Health System, also found a viral form of Lactobacillus, the phiadh phage, which infects bacteria and alters their replication, was significantly higher in individuals with schizoResearch Program at Sheppard Pratt Health System, also found a viral form of Lactobacillus, the phiadh phage, which infects bacteria and alters their replication, was significantly higher in individuals with schizophrenia.

Among other things his research group has studied the connection between the paternal age at conception and the risk of the child developing schizophrenia.

«In just a few short years, by analyzing tens of thousands of samples, our consortium has moved from identifying only a handful of loci associated with schizophrenia, to finding so many that we can see patterns among them,» said first author Stephan Ripke, a scientist at the Broad's Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research and the Analytical and Translational Genetics Unit at MGH.

An Emotional Training program «Mind Reading» developed by Researcher Simon Baron - Cohen is software designed for autistic children, but being used in schizophrenia research and possibly of value to children at high risk of schizophrenia (i.e. a child with close family relatives who have had schizophrenia).

6/26/2007 UCSD Psychiatrist David Braff Receives Distinguished Investigator Award The Mental Health Research Association awards $ 100,000 grant to advance understanding of schizophrenia David Braff, M.D, professor of psychiatry at the University of David Braff, M.D.California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine receiv... More...

Animal research that looks at genetically modified mice models is a popular way to understand the role of genes in schizophrenia.

Children born to mothers who gained too little weight during pregnancy were at increased risk for schizophrenia and other non-affective psychoses later in life, according to new epidemiological research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

Research also indicates that children whose mothers experienced stress during pregnancy may be at greater risk for mental illness later in life, including schizophrenia.11

Like the lab where Grace and her father work in An Na's The Place Between Breaths, scientists around the world are hard at work researching the causes of schizophrenia and investigating potential cures.

Here are a few of the labs and research centers that include schizophrenia as one of their primary areas of inquiry: Duke Schizophrenia Research Group The Schizophrenia Research Group at Duke University in Durham, NC, focuses on the mechanisms of cognitive deficits in patients with schizoresearch centers that include schizophrenia as one of their primary areas of inquiry: Duke Schizophrenia Research Group The Schizophrenia Research Group at Duke University in Durham, NC, focuses on the mechanisms of cognitive deficits in patients with schizoResearch Group The Schizophrenia Research Group at Duke University in Durham, NC, focuses on the mechanisms of cognitive deficits in patients with schizoResearch Group at Duke University in Durham, NC, focuses on the mechanisms of cognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia.

For 15 years in my early career I rated the delusions of schizophrenic patients on a 7 - point scale (the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale) from not - present to severe and I participated in annual reliability training in these symptom ratings through my role as a research associate on a longitudinal research project on schizophrenia at UCLA.

During Schizophrenia Awareness Week (18 - 24 May) the Mindframe team at the Hunter Institute of Mental Health encourage scriptwriters portraying characters living with schizophrenia to draw on research, interviews with peole who have lived experience and Mindframe for stage and screen resources (available online and in hard copy).