Sentences with phrase «targeted at symptom»

Some of the medicines regularly used in veterinary care are targeted at symptom relief.

Not exact matches

Ernie Strapazon, assistant general manager of Carnation «s Nutritional Products Division, said the company has developed an information campaign for Good Start targeted at consumers and focusing on formula intolerance symptoms.

Hopefully, a thorough history (a discussion of your child's symptoms and overall health) and physical exam will help to target children who may be at risk of health problems while playing sports.

Eliminate the foods one at a time, and wait to see if your baby's colicky symptoms (or other symptoms that you are targeting, like diarrhea or eczema, etc.) improve

The group would monitor the extent and complications of opioid addiction; spread awareness of symptoms and aftereffects through seminars and workshops; monitor and assess the state of and improvements in treatment modalities; interface with manufacturers, retailers, and physicians offering products to treat pain; pressure the medical community to reduce availability of addictive analgesics and advocate for nonaddictive substitutes, and maintain an interface between treatment programs and similar programs targeted at youth, health care, aging, and housing.

New research at the University at Buffalo reveals the first evidence that it may be possible to use a single compound to alleviate the behavioral symptoms by targeting sets of genes involved in the disease.

Carefully targeted brain training programs could reverse the core symptoms of psychosis if the illness is caught early enough, says Sophia Vinogradov at the San Francisco Medical Center.

Maria Carrillo, vice president of medical and scientific relations at the Alzheimer's Association, an advocacy group, applauds NIH's giving the trial a green light: Targeting the APOE4 population will «increase the possibility that participants in the trial will become symptomatic during the period of the study so that the scientists can assess whether the drug intervention is having an impact on delaying or preventing Alzheimer's symptoms, without having to wait 10 or 15 years or more,» she says.

«If we can find a way to target those neurons in humans, maybe we can reduce the «high» produced by the drug and reduce the withdrawal symptoms,» said Olivier George, assistant professor at TSRI and senior author of the new study.

Questionnaire assessments occurred at orientation and baseline visit 1 and targeted smoking history, dependence, and affective and psychiatric symptom domains.

Doctors at Okyanos utilize a specifically developed Okyanos protocol for opening up the blood brain barrier to help deliver stem cells directly to the brain; a technique that has been proven effective in independent studies This enables doctors to target your stem cells inside the brain to re-establish blood flow and repair damaged nerve cells (neurons) as well as target the restoration of myelin, halting the future progression of symptoms.

«But perhaps the opposite is true; it could be that malfunctions at the synapse drive the aging process,» he said, noting that existing therapies for neurodegenerative diseases only target symptoms.

Treatment for substance use disorders may incorporate a combination of group, family, and individual therapy targeted at medical stabilization, reducing the severity of the patient's symptoms, and providing tools, ongoing support, and resources to prevent relapse and address co-occurring symptoms.

Now that she's in full remission and lives symptom - free, Magdalena shows women how to feel better and control their symptoms just by eating a few targeted power foods at the right times in their cycles.

According to the researchers, therapeutic interventions are generally targeted at improving joint function and minimizing pain by making use of therapies that focus on symptoms, but don't assist joint structure improvement or long term improvement of the disease.

«True Health allergy testing helps clinicians determine their patients» specific allergic sensitivities, target exposure - reduction measures, and alleviate or prevent symptoms,» says Bobbie Sutton, MD, PhD, Vice President and Laboratory Director at True Health.

Diabetes and glucose drugs: One of the reasons that pharmaceutical methods of treating diabetes have been so unsuccessful is because of their limited approach — nearly all diabetes drugs target one (or at most, a few) of the primary symptoms of diabetes, without actually addressing underlying causes.

We tell our clients who believe they may be the targeted parent to never give up and we will develop a strategy to get experts and one judge involved in the case early on so the issue remains at the forefront of the court so it can ideally be resolved at a stage where alienation never fully develops or if it has that the alienation is stopped and the damaging symptoms reversed so the child has a healthy relationship with both parents.

Interventions must be targeted at alleviating maternal depressive symptoms by decreasing poverty, providing support programs for single parents, and establishing accessible and affordable medical care for all parents and their children.

At the same time, it is worth noting that some programs did identify small effects on stress and depressive symptoms and that others have specifically targeted reducing maternal depressive symptoms and have obtained stronger results.99

Evidence is emerging that psychosocial interventions can prevent depression15 - 17 in adolescents, and prevention interventions targeted at high - risk groups have recently had favorable results.16, 17 Our group has described a successful group cognitive behavioral intervention to prevent depression episodes in at - risk adolescents.18 Teens in the study had 2 significant risk factors: (1) they were offspring of depressed parents and (2) they had significant subsyndromal symptoms and / or a past episode of depression.

It targets the initial withdrawal symptoms that can discourage any addict, at the beginning itself.

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of psychological treatments in adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that met the following criteria: PTSD was the main target of treatment; participants had PTSD symptoms for at least three months; at least 70 % had diagnosis of PTSD; PTSD measured using recognised scale; report at least pre - and post-treatment measures; and at least 50 % follow - up.

This finding of the lack of impact on cognition is not surprising at one level as cognition is not targeted in either CBT or ST.. In fact there is surprisingly little evidence regarding the impact of psychotherapies or pharmacotherapy for depression on cognition, although the persistence of cognitive dysfunction despite improvement in depressive symptoms following treatment suggests that these most current treatments for depression are having little impact in this area (1).

Target Population: Adolescents 11 to 18 with the following symptoms or problems: substance abuse or at risk, delinquent / conduct disorder, school and other behavioral problems, and both internalizing and externalizing symptoms

In addition, interventions to prevent youth depression may benefit from a focus on enhancing family understanding of youth depression, improving parenting skills, and also on addressing parental depressive symptoms that may affect the efficacy of interventions targeting at - risk youth.

Results indicated that youth at the two targeted programs demonstrated a significant decrease in trauma - related symptoms over the course of the project period.

For inclusion, adolescents had to score at least 32 on the APAI (score range 0 — 105, higher score indicates greater severity of symptoms), although 14 adolescents with scores between 28 and 31 were included to achieve target sample size, and report some difficulties in function on a gender - specific local function measure.

The recent trend in research funding at the National Institute of Mental Health indicates that there is interest in advancing adolescent mental health research that takes a developmental - systemic approach in a field that currently relies predominantly on outpatient, short - term, symptom - targeted psychiatric and psychopharmacological interventions (NIMH 2008).

Similarly, in a study of Interpersonal Psychotherapy approaches to preventing youth depression, Young and colleagues found that teens who participated in a skills - based intervention targeting interpersonal role disputes, role transitions and interpersonal deficits reported fewer depressive symptoms at six - months follow - up than teens who were assigned to a school counseling control group.

At minimum the report should include the assessment (from patient or independent rater perspective, not therapist) of at least two standardized outcome measures, global functioning and target symptom (i.e. depression, anxiety, etc), as well as one process measure (i.e. therapeutic alliance, session depth, emotional experiencing, etc) evaluated on at least three separate occasionAt minimum the report should include the assessment (from patient or independent rater perspective, not therapist) of at least two standardized outcome measures, global functioning and target symptom (i.e. depression, anxiety, etc), as well as one process measure (i.e. therapeutic alliance, session depth, emotional experiencing, etc) evaluated on at least three separate occasionat least two standardized outcome measures, global functioning and target symptom (i.e. depression, anxiety, etc), as well as one process measure (i.e. therapeutic alliance, session depth, emotional experiencing, etc) evaluated on at least three separate occasionat least three separate occasions.

Optimally, such a report would include several outcome measures assessing a wide array of functioning such as global functioning, target symptoms (i.e. depression, anxiety, etc), subjective well - being, interpersonal functioning, social / occupational functioning and measures of personality, as well as relevant process measures evaluated at multiple times across treatment.

Early maturing girls are at increased risk of depressive symptoms in adolescence and could be targeted by programmes aimed at early intervention and prevention.

Peer interventions administered in the short - term are not enough to eradicate the peer problems of externalizing children, whose difficulties typically require longer - term treatments.20 Perhaps the most important conclusion from the MTA for the domain of peer relations is that peer problems need to be targeted directly and over the long - term; treatments geared primarily at ADHD symptoms or other functional deficits associated with ADHD are not likely to eradicate peer problems.

Whilst there is extensive support established for interventions with high - risk and at - risk populations, there is limited evidence from programs that target low risk parents who on presentation are often identified to have symptoms of depression, anxiety, or stress.