Sentences with phrase «specific psychiatric disorders»

However, further research of STPP in specific psychiatric disorders is needed, including a study of the active ingredients of STPP.

The efficacy of short - term psychodynamic psychotherapy in specific psychiatric disorders: a meta - analysis.

Objective To test the efficacy of short - term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP) in specific psychiatric disorders by performing a meta - analysis of more recent studies.

Rigorous inclusion criteria, included randomized controlled trials, use of treatment manuals and ensurance of treatment integrity, therapists experienced or specifically trained in STPP, treatment of patients with specific psychiatric disorders, reliable and valid diagnostic measures, and data necessary to calculate effect sizes.

Although studies comparing HRV in patients with specific psychiatric disorders with control subjects have been conducted, we know of no previous studies evaluating and comparing the HRV of patients with various psychiatric disorders (i.e., MDD, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia) with that of healthy controls.

«These findings may give further clues about how T. gondii infection can possibly [alter] the risk of specific psychiatric disorders.»

Have we reached the point where we can link specific infections to specific psychiatric disorders?

That notion appears way off the mark, though, for people diagnosed with specific psychiatric disorders.

And this is especially the case if it is a man who is claiming that a specific psychiatric disorder is more likely to be prevalent in women.

Not exact matches

While at the University of Dorpat, he studied the clinical histories of specific patients and realized that identifying and delineating the patterns of symptoms created his organized method to categorize psychiatric disorders.

We found genetic correlations between personality traits and psychiatric disorders, but specific variants underlying the correlations are unknown.»

Clinical features of major depressive disorder (MDD) may help identify specific subgroups of depressed patients based on associations with genetic risk for major psychiatric disorders, reports a study in Biological Psychiatry.

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.

The new finding is the latest evidence supporting a growing precision medicine model of psychiatric disease in which disruptions of certain genes during brain development contribute to a person's risk for multiple psychiatric disorders, with other genetic or epigenetic drivers, random developmental events, or environmental influences determining the specific disease an individual develops, said senior author Benjamin Cheyette, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry and a member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF.

As psychiatric disorders become attributable to specific, testable causes, will psychiatry become obsolete?

However, treatments of psychiatric disorders (e.g., drugs and cognitive behavior therapy) could not increase or decrease a specific connectivity between two regions, because these methods give broad effects on the global network.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — April 29, 2012 — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have determined how specific circuitry in the brain controls not only body movement but also motivation and learning, providing new insight into neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease — and psychiatric disorders such as addiction and depression.

Therefore it is hard to make a specific claim about a deficit like anxiety or social interaction as these are features of several psychiatric disorders / neurodevelopmental disorders.

Nevan Krogan, PhD, and Anatol Kreitzer, PhD, hope to develop more focused treatments that target specific proteins or neurons implicated in many psychiatric disorders.

A wonderful paper entitled: An introduction to Kundalini yoga meditation techniques that are specific for the treatment of psychiatric disorders describes specific techniques for indications ranging from anxiety to addiction.

A trained service animal has learned to perform one or more specific tasks for a person with a disability, which can include a psychiatric disorder.

An emotional support or psychiatric service animal can only be used by persons with a diagnosed mental or emotional disorder and need not have specific training for that function, but must be trained to behave appropriately in a public setting.

Some of the characteristics of the city and its people will be discussed here to provide ethnographic background for the more specific information on psychiatric disorder to follow.

Intellectual disability (ID) affects 143/10 000 children1 and is associated with a range of comorbid health conditions.2 — 4 It is heterogeneous, 5 and clustering of some medical conditions may be associated with particular disorders such as Down syndrome6 or Prader - Willi syndrome.7 While epilepsy and sensory impairments often occur in association with specific syndromes or more severe cognitive impairment, conditions such as fractures or obesity may develop as secondary to medication use, nutritional deficiency or lack of mobility.2 Consequently, children with ID may face greater health challenges than typically developing children and use healthcare systems more frequently.8, 9 Mental health problems are also common in people with ID.10 For instance, in a Canadian adolescent and adult population with ID, a high proportion of hospitalisations was attributed to the presence of psychiatric conditions.11

The disorder is associated with specific eating disorder psychopathology (eg, dysfunctional body shape and weight concerns), 4 psychiatric comorbidity, and significant health and psychosocial impairments.5 Binge eating disorder is also linked with overweight and obesity.6

Contrary to the meta - analyses of Crits - Christoph5 andAnderson and Lambert, 7 studies of IPT werenot included (eg, Elkin et al30 and Wilfleyet al31), because the relation of IPT to STPPis controversial, and empirical results suggest that IPT is very close toCBT.9 Thus, this review includes only studiesfor which there is a general agreement that they represent models of STPP.As it is questionable to aggregate the results of very different outcome measuresthat refer to different areas of psychological functioning, we assessed theefficacy of STPP separately for target symptoms, general psychiatric symptoms (ie, comorbid symptoms), and social functioning.32 Thisprocedure is analogous to the meta - analysis of Crits - Christoph.5 Asoutcome measures of target problems, we included patient ratings of targetproblems and measures referring to the symptoms that are specific to the patientgroup under study, eg, measures of anxiety for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were included.36

The importance of considering GxE interactions in understanding the aetiology of complex psychiatric disorders has become more widely acknowledged (Caspi & Moffitt 2006; Canli & Lesch 2007; Munafo et al. 2009), yet the association between specific cultural and genetic factors underlying affective disorders across human populations has been largely unexplored until now.

Validation for preschool MDD (based on meeting all DSM - IV symptom criteria) has been supported by the finding of a specific symptom constellation that was distinct from other psychiatric disorders and stable during a 6 - month period.22 Additionally, alterations in the hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal axis reactivity similar to those known in adults with depression, greater family history of mood disorders, as well as observational evidence of depressive affects and behaviors were detected in preschoolers with depression, providing further validation.22,25,27 - 30 More recent findings from a larger independent sample (N = 306) ascertained from community sites (and serving as the population for this investigation) have replicated the findings described above and have also demonstrated that preschoolers with depression display significant functional impairment evident in multiple contexts rated by both parents and teachers.24

AD autistic disorder, ADHD attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, AGO agoraphobia, AS Asperger's syndrome, AUT autism, CD conduct disorder, DYS dysthymic disorder, GAD generalized anxiety disorder, HFA high functioning autism, MDD major depressive disorder, NR not reported, OCD obsessive compulsive disorder, ODD oppositional defiant disorder, PAN panic disorder, PDD - NOS pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified, PSY at least one comorbid psychiatric disorder is present, SAD separation anxiety disorder, SOC social anxiety disorder, SPH specific phobia

This possibility arises from the fact that many psychiatric disorders are multifactorial in origin and that many causal factors are not diagnosis - specific.