Sentences with phrase «study schizophrenia and bipolar»

He and his colleagues employ pharmacologic, brain imaging, epidemiologic, genomic, and cell model approaches to study schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in particular.

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Duke University professor and sociologist Jeffrey Swanson, who specializes in studying the link between violence and mental illness, told Vox that even if everyone who suffers from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression in the US were cured overnight, violent crime in the US would only fall by around 4 %.

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.

Previous studies have linked toxoplasmosis to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, impulsivity and suicidal behavior.

Led by Brenda Penninx, PhD, of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the study found that patients with an early age at onset and higher symptom severity have an increased genetic risk for MDD, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

► The Broad Institute received a huge donation — $ 650 million, the largest ever made for psychiatric research — from philanthropist and businessman Ted Stanley, to study the biological basis of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Emily Underwood wrote at ScienceInsider.

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.

The current study began with a group of 217 male psychiatric participants, followed by Dr. Niculescu and colleagues for several years with diagnoses of bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophrenia.

The Broad Institute, a collaborative biomedical research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has received a $ 650 million donation from philanthropist and businessman Ted Stanley to study the biological basis of diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Study participants included 70 individuals with severe mental illness (bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder) or U.S. military veterans who had a diagnosis of PTSD and a mood or psychotic disorder.

A new study led by Wayne State University School of Medicine researcher Vaibhav Diwadkar, Ph.D. suggests that the brain network interactions between regions that support attention are dysfunctional in children and adolescents at genetic risk for developing schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

A 2012 review from Stanford researchers analyzed over 50 studies that used neuroimaging - that is, MRI, fMRI, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and anything else that takes before - and - after pictures of the brain - to examine the brains of kids with a variety of mental illnesses: anorexia, ADHD, autism, bipolar disorder, depression, OCD, and schizophrenia.

The study was conducted using postmortem brains from the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center, in which 15 brains were used from healthy controls, 15 with bipolar disorder, and 12 with schizophrenia.

But researchers have identified a promising new approach that may revolutionize the study and treatment of conditions such as schizophrenia, autism and bipolar disorder.

The FDA has approved antipsychotics for treatment of certain mental disorders, particularly schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, yet the majority of the people in the study had no such diagnosis.

Fallin's interests are in applying genetic epidemiology methods to studies of neuropsychiatric disorders including autism, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder and in developing applications and methods for epigenetic epidemiology, particularly as applied to mental health and development.

Brain lactate and pH in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a systematic review of findings from magnetic resonance studies Dogan AE, Yuksel C, Du F, Chouinard VA, Öngür D. Neuropsychopharmacology.

A 2007 study by Rzhetsky and colleagues that applied statistical modeling methods to patient records alone found a significant overlap between autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder that implied a genetic relationship.

During the clinical component of the course — which delves into pathology, or the study of disorders / diseases in bodily tissues — he was struck by how there's no physical sign of what's wrong in autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other maladies of the nervous system.

Review of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies comparing bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

5/16/2007 Wearable Technology Helps Monitor Mental Illness Psychiatric researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine will report important new findings from a study of patients with bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia at the upcoming meeting of the Society of Biolo... More...

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

The PGC is currently genotyping new samples to further study schizophrenia and additional psychiatric diseases, including autism and bipolar disorder.

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 researchers examined 92 studies across four continents and 16 different countries, including the US, UK, France, Australia and Sweden.10 per cent of people with SMI had cardiovascular disease, with rates slightly higher in schizophrenia (11.8 per cent) and depression (11.7 per cent) than bipolar disorder (8.4 per cent), with a substantially increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease over time.

Dr. Patrick Sullivan of UNC is a co-author of the study, which found that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share the most common genetic variation.

Various studies have shown that this diet can improve symptoms of bipolar disorder and normalize pathological behaviors associated with schizophrenia.

Several studies have shown that negative symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar can been lessened in conjunction with NAC supplementation18, 19.

Studies done in 2010 showed a link to gluten sensitivity and psychiatric brain disorders like schizophrenia, 3 acute mania, 4 and bipolar disorders 5 without celiac disease (gluten allergy).

Previous studies have also shown links between T. gondii and schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and even the chance that a person will be involved in an automobile accident.

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.

This study compared the HRV of patients with several psychiatric disorders (i.e., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and MDD) with that of healthy controls.

Genes regulating the cerebral levels of important neurotransmitters (dopamine, serotonin, GABA, etc.) or signal transmission efficiency (neurotransmitter receptors and genes) have been targeted in association studies of major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and autism [84], as well as of personality traits [85].

Environment and vulnerability to major psychiatric illness: a case control study of early parental loss in major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

A total of 50 FEP and 50 chronic patients diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (most recent episode manic severe with psychotic features) and their family caregivers participated in the 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).