Sentences with phrase «schizophrenic patients»

The distribution of Expressed Emotion components among relatives of schizophrenic patients in Aarhaus and Chandigarh

I spent a year working with schizophrenic patients at UNC Hospitals after college.

The experiment showed that neural cells originating from schizophrenic patients produced a smaller amount of these substances.

A doctor treats three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of whom believe they are Jesus Christ.

In high - stress families, schizophrenic patients who receive standard aftercare relapse 50 - 60 % of the time in the first year out of hospital.

Richard Gere will play a doctor in charge of three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of whom believe they are Jesus Christ.

Losing touch with reality puts schizophrenic patients at high risk of job loss, illness, homelessness, and suicide.

This research suggests that exercising schizophrenic patients» awareness of themselves and their surroundings could improve their assessments of control, says cognitive neuropsychologist Sohee Park of Vanderbilt University, who did not take part in either study.

THE KAVLI FOUNDATION (TKF): Dr. Gage, in your model you found that neurons look pretty similar between schizophrenic patients and normal controls, and it is just the connections between them (synapses) that are different, right?

One study focusing on treatment - resistant schizophrenic patients found that high - dose glycine in association with antipsychotic medication could significantly alleviate negative symptoms associated with this mental illness1.

The voices schizophrenic patients hear are highly influenced by their culture — while U.S. patients typically hear angry and malicious voices, patients in Africa and India report hearing playful and friendly voices.

A trial oftwo cognitive — behavioural methods of treating drug - resistant residual psychotic symptomsin schizophrenic patients.

A new study found out that the brains of schizophrenic patients attempt to heal themselves by restructuring brain tissue damages and fighting particular effects of the disease.

The Effect of a Brief Cognitive Behavioural Stress Management Programme on Mental Status, Coping with Stress Attitude and Caregiver Burden While Caring for Schizophrenic Patients.

It originated in the early 50's when doctors working with schizophrenic patients noticed that the communication dynamic between all the family members was dysfunctional and the symptoms of the patients intensified when there was more conflict within the family.

Cognitive functioning in chronically hospitalized schizophrenic patients: Age - related changes and age disorientation as a predictor of impairment

«We can generate glial progenitors from reprogrammed human skin cells,» he says, «and have already created mice with glia from schizophrenic patients.»

A trial of two cognitive — behavioural methods of treating drug - resistant psychotic symptoms in schizophrenic patients.

So I started to image them with the idea, «Can I use imaging technologies to see if I can also observe a commonality and the patterns that we saw with schizophrenic patients?»

It arose from several sources, including simultaneous attempts on the part of several clinicians in the early Fifties to understand and to treat their schizophrenic patients more successfully than had been the case with orthodox one - to - one approaches (see HFT).

She is now investigating whether this is also the case in humans by studying samples of bodily fluids of autistic and schizophrenic patients (as well as brain tissue extracted during autopsies) for evidence of abnormal MHC class I levels.

«Perhaps as many as 30 percent of schizophrenic patients may now become candidates for more precise treatment based on the individual characteristics of these four genes, with the remaining cases becoming less mysterious as we pull these groups out of the mix,» says Malaspina, the Anita Steckler and Joseph Steckler Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone.

Severely depressed or schizophrenic patients could benefit enormously from tests that reveal which drug and dose will help them the most, but unlike asthma, drug response can be difficult to quantify biologically, making gene - drug relations tougher to pin down.

Although healthy volunteers knew when they were in control of their moves during the game, the schizophrenic patients apparently did not detect how lag or turbulence affected control of their performance.

This prediction effect did not appear in the schizophrenic patients» responses.

Healthy participants and schizophrenic patients were asked to look at a clock and occasionally push a button.

A month later, the cells from the healthy volunteers looked nearly identical to conventional brain cells, while the cells from the schizophrenic patients were smaller and formed fewer connections, hinting at the physical root of the disease.

It has been known for some time that dopamine and NMDA receptor function are altered in schizophrenic patients - our data mirror the direction of these changes and therefore might give insight into how these changes come about mechanistically.»

Dr Paul Banks, one of the researchers, said: «Our findings demonstrate a mechanism for how dopamine neurotransmission can influence NMDA receptor function at a connection in the brain needed for complex mental tasks which are disrupted in schizophrenic patients.

When a team of Japanese scientists, in collaboration with Juan Carlos de la Torre of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, performed an autopsy on a schizophrenic patient who had tested positive for Borna antibodies, they initially found both viral RNA and viral proteins in certain areas of his brain, but no live virus.

Now, they have for the first time isolated the virus from a schizophrenic patient's brain.

According to Lena Palaniyappan and colleagues, regardless of the kind of tissue damage initially recorded, the brains of schizophrenic patients were shown to be constantly attempting to reorganize themselves.

«I think this is an interesting contribution to the epidemiological literature, that paternal age may be a risk factor for a subgroup of schizophrenic patients,» Dr. Pulver said.

Lactic acid bacteria, or Lactobacillus gasseri, was found to be at least 400 times more abundant in schizophrenic patients than control subjects, according to a study published last week in the journal PeerJ.

TKF: You then applied schizophrenia drugs to these not - fully - mature cultured neurons derived from schizophrenic patients and found that some of these drugs reversed the abnormalities in synapse formation you saw.

mGluR5 mutations have been identified in some ADHD and schizophrenic patients.

In a study focused on yoga therapy and schizophrenic patients, oxytocin levels were measured within two groups, a control group and a group of yoga practitioners.

The cognitive impairments of schizophrenic patients can not be simply characterized as a generalized context deficit.

Expressed emotion, attribution, and control in parents of schizophrenic patients.

While Bowen's family systems theory is an outgrowth of his work with schizophrenic patients, he went on to further develop the theory, and family systems therapy continues to be a popular form of therapy.

A trial of two cognitive - behavioural methods of treating drug - resistant psychotic symptoms in schizophrenic patients: I. Outcome

Psychophysiological responses of schizophrenic patients to high and low expressed emotion relatives