Sentences with phrase «studies on schizophrenia»

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In addition to shedding light on how abnormal glia can cause schizophrenia, the study underlined how readily mouse brains accept human cells.

As of mid-February 2017, more than 544,000 Veterans have provided DNA specimens, military exposure information, and access to health records to facilitate studies on topics ranging from the biological underpinnings of Gulf War illness and PTSD to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

In the heady postwar years, hundreds of promising studies were conducted in the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depression.

A new study by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers has found that in mice, adjusting levels of a compound called kynurenic acid can have significant effects on schizophrenia - like behavior.

Dr Antonio Pardiñas, first author of the study, said: «We show for the first time that genetic variants that do not severely impact gene function, but presumably have a more subtle impact on these critical genes, increase risk for developing schizophrenia.»

In this study, the researchers performed a series of electrophysiological and behavioral experiments on a mouse model of schizophrenia developed at CUMC.

Future studies about romantic attachment will focus on using the findings from research such as Young's and Diamond's to develop new treatments for grief associated with partner separation or loss and for disorders that involve social deficits, such as schizophrenia and autism.

However, until now no study has examined the effect of Holocaust exposure on the risk of developing schizophrenia.

A unique study examining the effect of Holocaust exposure on the risk of developing schizophrenia was recently undertaken by Prof. Stephen Levine, Prof. Itzhak Levav Dr. Yair Goldberg of the University of Haifa; and Ms. Inna Pugachova, Ms. Yifat Becher, and Ms. Rinat Yoffe of the Ministry of Health.

Published in Nature Neuroscience, this new study lends support to the direct influence on creativity of genes found in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Although exercise has been shown to be an effective treatment for people with long - term schizophrenia, no studies have assessed its effects on psychiatric symptoms in young adults with early psychosis, until now.

Sasson was studying developmental psychology, with a focus on autism, and Pinkham was interested in schizophrenia and clinical psychology.

«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.

Schizophrenia risk From previous studies, the researchers knew that one of the strongest genetic predictors of people's risk of schizophrenia was found within a region of DNA located on chromosome 6.

The study is based on a survey of 72 English - speaking outpatients with schizophrenia in the San Diego area.

A recent generation of studies of postmortem brain tissue from people with schizophrenia, particularly from the laboratory of Professor David Lewis and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, have shed light on schizophrenia - related abnormalities in the interplay of the main excitatory neurons, pyramidal neurons, and a specific class of inhibitory nerve cells, called chandelier cells, in the prefrontal cortex.

New study of effects of two genes on schizophrenia may aid in quicker diagnoses and the development of new therapies

According to Halassa, the new research sets the stage for ever more detailed studies on the complex behavior involved in how the mammalian brain pays attention to what's important, and especially how those neural circuits are broken in cases of attention - deficit diseases, such as ADHD, autism, and schizophrenia.

For this study, the team, which also included Bernard Crespi, an evolutionary biology professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, and East Carolina University evolution professor Kyle Summers, focused on 76 gene variations most strongly related to schizophrenia.

Previous studies on post-mortem brains and blood samples from patients with schizophrenia indicated that their brains show differences in terms of vascularization.

«Loss of motivation is a core feature of schizophrenia that we need to investigate with increased focus,» said Dr. Gary Remington, senior scientist with the CAMH Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute who served as the senior investigator on the study team.

We will need to carry out further studies with larger sample sizes to confirm the current findings, but we hope that, used in conjunction with medication and current psychological therapies, this could help people with schizophrenia minimise the impact of their illness on everyday life.»

This means that adoptees with high - genetic risk for schizophrenia - related disorders did not have any measurable impact on parental communication and care giving skills, or on the functioning of the rest of the family, according to the OPAS rating system that was used to evaluate the families in the study.

Future studies of these cells are expected to shed light on developmental diseases such as autism and schizophrenia and malformations of brain development, including microcephaly, lissencephaly and neuronal migration disorders, they say, as well as age - related illnesses, such as Alzheimer's disease.

Meta - analysis investigates time perception and temporal information processing in patients with schizophrenia on the basis of 68 studies from the past 65 years...

The serotonin (5 - HT) hypothesis of schizophrenia arose from early studies on interactions between the hallucinogenic drug LSD (D - lysergic acid diethylamide) and 5 - HT in peripheral systems.

Before we go into greater depth on this study we want to note that recently, we reported on the theory that child abuse is a «cause» of schizophrenia.

The evidence emerged from a linkage study of Icelandic families that showed that schizophrenia correlated with an area on the eighth of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes.

I worked at Virginia Commonwealth University for more than 14 years, focusing on genetic studies of schizophrenia and smoking addiction.

Describes gene - identification methods — emphasizing linkage and association studies — used in research on bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

Torrey's study also found that some of the drugs used to treat schizophrenia have an inhibiting effect on Toxoplasma growth.

Its lifetime impact on individuals and society is high, both in terms of years of healthy life lost to disability and in terms of financial cost, with studies estimating the cost of schizophrenia at over $ 60 billion annually in the U.S. alone.

«Because big genetic studies have been done on schizophrenia and autism and other diseases, you can calculate someone's risks of developing those diseases from their genetic information and you can see if it's associated with contagious yawning,» she said.

Her laboratory also uses mouse models to study other neurogenetic diseases, such as schizophrenia and ALS, with a focus on genes that affect the course of disease and clinical outcomes.

Men who become fathers later in life pass on more brand - new genetic mutations to their offspring, a study has found — probably contributing to disorders such as autism and schizophrenia in the next generation.

Studies showing correlative links between Toxoplasma gondii infection and potential increases in schizophrenia, suicide attempts and poor impulse control have often been conducted on small clinical or convenience samples, rather than large populations.

Their most recent study, published in Schizophrenia Research, along with researcher Wendy Simmons, compared two previous studies that found a link between childhood cat ownership and the development of schizophrenia later in life with an unpublished survey on mental health from 1982, 10 years before any data on cat ownership and mental illness had been published.

Converging effects of diverse treatment modalities on frontal cortex in schizophrenia: A review of longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging studies.

Henry et al12 carried out a study on 23 manic BD patients, 14 patients with schizophrenia and 23 healthy controls.

Distinctions based on age of onset have proven important for understanding heterogeneity within attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder51 and antisocial disorder, 52,53 in which childhood onset has worse implications for course, recurrence, familial transmission, and treatment resistance.54 Research on schizophrenia is also benefiting from a focus on childhood neurodevelopmental processes55 and juvenile - onset symptoms.56 The present study and others1 illustrate that the distinction between juvenile vs adult - onset MDD is important for understanding heterogeneity within depression as well.

A sross - cultural study on expressed emotion in careers of people with dementia and schizophrenia: Japan and England.

Some careers in child psychology might focus on abnormal child psychology, which is a similar profession, but may focus more on the study and treatment of long term mood disorders, schizophrenia, psychopathology, sociopathy, or other personality disorders.

In addition, several studies have shown that other parental psychological disorders such as schizophrenia and anxiety disorders are related to dysfunctional parenting practices, including a lack of parental monitoring and harsh parenting, although it should be noted that most of these studies focused only on mothers (Berg - Nielsen et al. 2002).

Kavanagh39 reported the median proportion of high EE families in their meta - analysis as 54 % with a range from 23 % to 77 %, whereas figures are typically lower than 40 % in staff - patient studies.12, 23,24,27,28,40 — 42 It may be the case that psychiatric staff have both more experience and training in managing patients» problems than relatives which may be protective factors against the development of high EE.43 In support of this hypothesis, an early study which involved interviewing nurses about how they cope with patients» symptoms of schizophrenia found that more experienced senior staff used a greater number and range of coping strategies than less experienced staff.43 High EE ratings in staff - patient studies are also almost exclusively based on the presence of critical comments with infrequent hostility and very little evidence of EOI.

The influence of family Expressed Emotion on the course of schizophrenia in a sample of Spanish patients; a two year follow - up study

This study uses data from the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness on sociodemograhic characteristics, baseline clinical status, and service use among patients diagnosed with schizophrenia to prospectively identify predictors of CJS involvement during the following year.

Effects of antipsychotic medications on psychosocial functioning in patients with chronic schizophrenia: findings from the NIMH CATIE study

Several studies have reported that early trauma, and especially childhood sexual abuse, specifically increases the risk of later hallucinations in both schizophrenia and bipolar patients.69 — 73 On the other hand, insecure attachment appears to be specifically associated with paranoia and not hallucinations.45, 46 Evidence that discrimination or victimization plays a specific role in the development of paranoid beliefs has emerged from a population survey in the United States and Mexico, 39 from a prospective population - based study in Holland, 32 and from patients» retrospective reports of their experiences of intrusive74, 75 and threatening76 life events (as noted above, this effect may contribute to the elevated rates of psychosis in immigrant populations).