Does adjuvant aspirin benefit patients with
schizophrenia spectrum disorders who are on antipsychotic therapy?
Negative symptoms are prevalent in antipsychotic - treated adult outpatients with
schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Review: Children and adolescents with
schizophrenia spectrum disorders respond to antipsychotics, but are susceptible to adverse events
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the schizophrenia spectrum.
Dr. Gerretsen and his colleagues tested the water procedure with 16 patients with
schizophrenia spectrum disorder, who had moderate to severe lack of insight into their illness.
Atheists are just lower on the «
schizophrenia spectrum».
Not exact matches
Along the
spectrum of psychosis is schizoid (personality) disorder and
schizophrenia.
The result is a financial
schizophrenia extending across the political
spectrum from the Tea Party to Tim Geithner at the Treasury and Ben Bernanke at the Fed.
Scientists used CRISPR - Cas9 to shed light on why people with 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome — a rare human genetic disorder — are more likely to develop brain disorders like autism
spectrum disorder, epilepsy and
schizophrenia (Karun K. Singh, abstract 103.05, see attached summary).
The largest of its kind, the study examined genetic data in 100,000 individuals including 40,000 people with a diagnosis of
schizophrenia and also found that some of the genes identified as increasing risk for
schizophrenia have previously been associated with other neurodevelopmental disorders, including intellectual disability and autism
spectrum disorders.
Schmid says enhancing habituation and sensory filtering in autism
spectrum disorder and
schizophrenia might have beneficial effects not only on hyper - and hyposensitivity, but also on cognitive function.
The term «
schizophrenia,» with its connotation of hopeless chronic brain disease, should be dropped and replaced with something like «psychosis
spectrum syndrome,» argues a professor of psychiatry in The BMJ today.
The same conflict that gives rise to autism and
schizophrenia may be at work in all of us, nudging us one way or another on the
spectrum from father - brain to mother - brain.
They contend that mental illness can be thought of as occupying a
spectrum, with autism at one end and
schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression at the other.
In their new paper, Cheyette and his team examined the gene DIXDC1 — a key piece of the WNT signaling pathway that is active in tissues of the brain and interacts with DISC1, a gene implicated in
schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, and autism
spectrum disorders.
Statistically significant hazard ratios for specific groups of psychiatric disorders were found for
schizophrenia and psychoses (1.27, 1.16 - 1.38), affective disorders (1.32, 1.25 - 1.39), anxiety and other neurotic disorders (1.37, 1.32 - 1.42), mental and behavioural syndromes including eating disorders (1.13, 1.04 - 1.24), mental retardation (1.28, 1.17 - 1.40), mental development disorders including autism
spectrum disorders (1.22, 1.16 - 1.28), and behavioural and emotional disorders including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)(1.40, 1.34 - 1.46), when compared with rates in naturally conceived children.
First, an analysis of genomic data from 6,000 patients with autism
spectrum disorders, 1,000 patients with bipolar disorder, and 2,500 patients with
schizophrenia by co-first author Pierre - Marie Martin, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Cheyette's lab, revealed that disruptive mutations in the main neuronal form of DIXDC1 were present about 80 percent more often in psychiatric patients (0.9 percent had mutations) compared to healthy controls (0.5 percent had mutations).
The authors are currently applying this work to assess whether this form of attitude alignment may differ in people suffering from neuropsychiatric conditions, such as autism
spectrum disorder and
schizophrenia.
Disturbances in the functioning of this network, as well as various kind of infection and other triggers of a pregnant woman's immune response, have been linked to development of psychiatric illnesses, such as
schizophrenia and autism
spectrum disorders.
The fact that psychosis may exist on a
spectrum could also help ease the stigma attached to a
schizophrenia diagnosis.
Although antipsychotic drugs are among the most widely prescribed medications, individuals with
schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autism -
spectrum disorders often experience severe side effects because the drugs interact with dozens of other brain receptors.
Risperidone is a commonly prescribed antipsychotic medication which is FDA approved for use for
schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism
spectrum disorder.
5.8 % (4/69) of the high genetic risk adoptees in a healthy environment developed a
schizophrenia -
spectrum disorder.
This evidence suggests that people with high - genetic risk for
schizophrenia -
spectrum disorders receive a protective effect of the healthy family environment of 86 % decrease in risk.
Complementing its extensive capabilities, PsychoGenics offers a variety of validated mouse models including in - licensed transgenic models that support research in areas such as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, Autism
spectrum disorders, psychosis /
schizophrenia, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), muscular dystrophy and other muscle disorders.
There is a significant association between dysfunctional family environment and adoptee diagnosis of
schizophrenia -
spectrum disorder.
In this study, 36.8 % of high - genetic risk adoptees living in a dysfunctional family environment were found to have developed a
schizophrenia -
spectrum disorder, compared to only 5.8 % of those in a healthy family environment.
4.8 % (4/83) of the low genetic risk adoptees in a healthy environment developed a
schizophrenia -
spectrum disorder.
These disorders make up what the author's refer to as their «broad»
schizophrenia -
spectrum (see box below).
Widespread reductions of cortical thickness in
schizophrenia and
spectrum disorders and evidence of heritability.
A Finnish national sample of adoptees whose biological mothers were diagnosed with
schizophrenia -
spectrum disorders was blindly compared to a demographically (age, sex, location, ect) matched sample of adoptees whose biological mothers did not have a
schizophrenia -
spectrum psychiatric diagnosis.
The first is that the Finnish national database that was consulted for sampling purposes is so extensive that they were able to find adoptees and families at high - and low - genetic risk for
schizophrenia -
spectrum disorders that were matched on demographic variables (age, education, income level, household size, etc.).
Adoptees with high - genetic risk for
schizophrenia -
spectrum disorders (see below) have been found to be more sensitive to environmental effects than adoptees with low - genetic risk for the disease.
The rate of
schizophrenia -
spectrum disorders in the low - genetic risk adoptees was similar regardless of the family environment.
36.8 % (28/76) of the high genetic risk adoptees in a dysfunctional environment developed a
schizophrenia -
spectrum disorder.
5.3 % (4/75) of the low genetic risk adoptees in a dysfunctional environment developed a
schizophrenia -
spectrum disorder.
This work has important implications for developing novel treatment strategies for psychiatric disorders associated with social cognitive deficits, including autism
spectrum disorders and
schizophrenia.
Variants of this gene have been also identified in autism
spectrum disorder and
schizophrenia.
(HealthDay)-- Early intervention (EI) services seem to improve the suicide rate for patients with first - episode
schizophrenia -
spectrum (FES) disorders, according to a study published online April 4 in JAMA Psychiatry.
Alterations in the amygdala have been reported in psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety disorders like PTSD,
schizophrenia and autism
spectrum disorder.
Researchers analyzed data from three large health databases, two in Sweden and one in Israel, and found that a child's odds of developing an autism
spectrum disorder (ASD) tripled if he or she had a parent with
schizophrenia.
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spectrum disorder and mental health disorders including paranoid
schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder.
Featuring work from world - renowned psychologists, this resource will help clinicians augment self - understanding in clients, especially those with autism
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Table 2 displays the partial correlations (partialling out the effects of depressive symptoms) of antipathy and role reversal with
schizophrenia -
spectrum phenomenology.
For the sake of completeness, Table 3 shows the partial correlations of the insecure attachment styles with antipathy, role reversal, and the
schizophrenia -
spectrum phenomenology variables.
The angry - dismissive style was associated with antipathy and with all the
schizophrenia -
spectrum phenomenology variables.
In this context, subclinical symptoms of psychosis and
schizophrenia -
spectrum personality disorder (PD) traits in nonclinical populations are presumed to reflect different expressions of liability to
schizophrenia and help to delineate etiological processes as they avoid many of the confounds typically present in
schizophrenia samples [30].
Table 1 provides descriptive data for the childhood experiences and
schizophrenia -
spectrum phenomenology variables.
Caregiver burden in recent - onset
schizophrenia and
spectrum disorders: the influence of symptoms and personality traits