Sentences with phrase «schizophrenia risk factors»

Recent research explores the effects of a schizophrenia risk factor (DISC1) and its influence over the onset of the disease.

A Johns Hopkins University team this week reported inserting a disrupted human gene, the schizophrenia risk factor DISC1, into lab mice, causing them to exhibit the brain asymmetry characteristic of schizophrenia as well as agitation in open spaces and trouble finding hidden food — traits reminiscent of the restlessness, impaired sense of smell and depressionlike symptoms schizophrenics suffer, Reuters reports.

Not exact matches

Back then, it was hypothesised that the A1 beta - casein protein found in the milk of some cows was a risk factor for diabetes, heart disease and possibly also schizophrenia and autism.

While some evidence was found to support hypotheses that cannabis use is a contributory factor in increasing the risk of schizophrenia, the researchers were surprised to find stronger evidence that the opposite was also likely.

Now a large survey using data from all patients hospitalized in psychiatric wards in Israel, and their siblings, has given some answers: having a sibling with schizophrenia increases your risk of developing the condition by a factor of x10, with increased risks of developing bipolar disorder and other mental disorders.

In addition to stressful life events, trauma and family history of schizophrenia and, the calculator takes into account five other factors to determine an individual's level of risk.

This suggests that the results were not wholly driven by differences in lifestyle factors or ethnicity between the two groups, and may therefore point towards schizophrenia's direct role in increasing risk of diabetes.

She examined risk factors specifically involving epilepsy, ADHD, autism and schizophrenia.

For example, the American Psychiatric Association, which publishes the DSM, on its website describes schizophrenia as «a chronic brain disorder,» and academic journals describe it as a «debilitating neurological disorder,» a «devastating, highly heritable brain disorder,» or a «brain disorder with predominantly genetic risk factors.»

Hence, De Kovel and her colleagues also compared the results of their study with genetic factors that influence the risk of schizophrenia.

Only half of identical twins whose siblings have schizophrenia develop the disease, making it critical to better understand how known risk factors such as urban environments and complications at birth contribute, he says.

The risk of developing schizophrenia, based on birth factors, was compared against those who did not have schizophrenia.

«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.

«We've focused our lens on these risks in a small population with a specific genetic subtype of schizophrenia, where the connection between birth factors and risk of developing schizophrenia is noticeably stronger.»

Environmental stressors such as infection and abuse were long ago shown to be risk factors for schizophrenia.

«No link found between subcortical brain volumes, genetic risk for schizophrenia: Proof - of - concept study provides roadmap for future research into possible associations between brain volume measures, known genetic risk factors.»

Much research has been done to identify pre-natal risk factors for schizophrenia.

The results of this study suggest that there are protective family environmental factors that may reduce the schizophrenia risk for a susceptible child by up to 86 %.

Isolating a gene that is «associated» with schizophrenia or is a «risk factor» for schizophrenia doesn't necessarily have a doggone thing to do with preventing it or curing it.

I read your article very carefully, as well as all the published information available, and I am very well read in the issues of genetics and schizophrenia, and this does not change one thing: risk factors do not equal cause or prevention.

What we have done is identify several genetic risk factors that greatly enhance an individual's risk of developing schizophrenia.

For example, emotionally turbulent families and stressful life events have been linked as risk factors for schizophrenia as well as for for relapses or triggers for episodes of schizophrenia.

There is also considerable evidence indicating that stress (especially social stress and anxiety) is a risk factor and may trigger episodes of schizophrenia.

Dr. Malaspina continued «I think three of the interesting factors that have been linked to the risk of schizophrenia are severe stress in a stress - sensitive person who has underlying genes for schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury in those with underlying genes for schizophrenia, and, very importantly, cannabis exposure in early adolescence.»

However, just as with many other forms of stress (complications during pregnancy and birth, drug use, head injuries, etc) that appear to be important in the risk for schizophrenia (especially those who have a family history of the disease), scientists suggest that child abuse may likely also turn out to be a risk factor for some individuals.

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,...

A multinational study of data from 130,000 people shows that inherited risk factors for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder also predict participation in the arts and creative professions REYKJAVIK, Iceland, 8 June 2015 — A study led by scientists at deCODE genetics...

«The fact that we were able to detect genetic risk factors on this massive scale shows that schizophrenia can be tackled by the same approaches that have already transformed our understanding of other diseases,» said the paper's senior author Michael O'Donovan, deputy director of the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University School of Medicine.

Moreover, risk factors may be different for different individuals - while one person may develop schizophrenia due largely to a strong family history of mental illness (e.g. a high level of genetic risk), someone else with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the disease due to a more significant combination of prepregnancy factors, pregnancy stress, other prenatal factors, social stress, family stress or environmental factors that they experience during their childhood, teen or early adult years.

Autism is a «really complicated» disorder, and the evidence to date suggests that a combination of genes and so - called environmental factors — some of which may increase the risk of both autism and schizophrenia — are involved, says Patrick F. Sullivan, M.D., lead author of the study and director of the Center for Psychiatric Genomics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, in Chapel Hill.

The relationship of perceived family criticism and other risk factors to violence among patients with schizophrenia.

A systematic meta - review grading the evidence for non-genetic risk factors and putative antecedents of schizophrenia

Findings suggest that genetic variants associated with traits, such as educational attainment, body mass index, and schizophrenia, also capture environmental risk and protective factors.