Sentences with phrase «treating psychiatric disease»

The research provides hope for a future in which there will be less guesswork in treating psychiatric disease.

And as Deisseroth and his colleagues illuminate more neural pathways, other researchers will be able to design increasingly targeted drugs and minimally invasive brain implants to treat psychiatric disease.

New studies — prompted by a renewed interest in potential applications of psychedelic drugs for understanding the brain or even treating some psychiatric diseases — suggest that far - reaching changes in brain connectivity contribute to the altered states of consciousness and other effects of an acid trip.

Not exact matches

«We have discovered a small molecule compound that shows a profound and prolonged effect on autism - like social deficits without obvious side effects, while many currently used compounds for treating a variety of psychiatric diseases have failed to exhibit the therapeutic efficacy for this core symptom of autism,» said Zhen Yan, PhD, professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, and senior author on the paper.

Govoni says that when patients are treated for psychiatric disease, the creative impulses often associated with bipolar disorder, dementia, or even depression may fall by the wayside.

Liegner vividly recalls one young man who had been treated for Lyme disease whose physician recommended hospitalizing him for long - term psychiatric care.

Dolmetsch is using iPS cells to study psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, and to screen for drugs that might work to treat them.

The findings provide insight into the biological pathways that may predispose an individual to disease and could ultimately lead to the development of new therapeutic avenues to treat the five major psychiatric illnesses.

Dillin noted that drugs that lower levels of serotonin have long been used to treat depression and other psychiatric manifestations of neurodegenerative diseases, but the new findings suggest these medications may have more widespread use in age - related disease than was previously thought.

Dr. Deisseroth is the D.H. Chen Professor in the Bioengineering and Psychiatry Departments at Stanford University, and is a practicing inpatient and outpatient psychiatrist, employing medications and interventional brain stimulation techniques (VNS, TMS, and others) to treat patients with psychiatric disease.

Furthermore, her research has also influenced the development of tests to assess, diagnose and treat people with brain disorders resulting from traumatic injury and degenerative diseases, as well as from psychiatric illness.

«Although our goal is to develop systems that can treat infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV or tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa or Southeast Asia, there are many applications here in the U.S. for treating chronic conditions such as heart disease, diabetes or psychiatric illness.

psychiatry (adj. psychiatric) A field of medicine where doctors study and treat diseases of the human mind.

Demonstrated in Science in 2015, the system represents a noninvasive prototype that could help researchers unravel the neuronal underpinnings of brain disorders and someday help treat recalcitrant psychiatric and neurological diseases — without resorting to the bulky electrodes currently used for deep brain stimulation in the treatment of Parkinson's disease and some forms of depression.

«Salk neuroscientists are making rapid progress decoding the brain, knowledge that matches the critical need to prevent and treat a wide range of neurological and psychiatric diseases,» says Gage.

Within the fields of microbiology and immunology, neurologic diseases, neuropharmacology, behavioral, cognitive and developmental neuroscience, and psychiatric disorders, the center's research programs are seeking ways to: develop vaccines for infectious and noninfectious diseases; understand the basic neurobiology and genetics of social behavior and develop new treatment strategies for improving social functioning in social disorders such as autism; interpret brain activity through imaging; increase understanding of progressive illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; unlock the secrets of memory; treat drug addiction; determine how the interaction between genetics and society shape who we are; and advance knowledge about the evolutionary links between biology and behavior.

Julia talked about how when it comes to funding drug research to treat depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, and other psychiatric disorders, the global pharmaceutical industry prefers to invest its research dollars in cancer, metabolism, autoimmunity, and other disease areas.

Health coaches do not treat disease or psychiatric conditions, and we do not diagnose or prescribe, or provide therapy.

Firstly, many older adults with sleep problems have underlying problems that should be treated directly: disease, medication that causes insomnia, depression, psychiatric disorders, sleep apnea, periodic limb movements, and inability to decrease the dose of a presently taken hypnotic.