Sentences with phrase «treating psychiatric disorders»

This case outlines that micronutrient treatment might be severely compromised by infections such as Candida and may highlight the importance of gut health when treating psychiatric disorders with nutrients.

Innovate new technology - based methods for diagnosing, monitoring, and treating psychiatric disorders.

Zhou and his team said reversing the abnormal activity of the inactive X chromosome in patients suffering from mental illness may offer a potential new strategy for treating psychiatric disorders.

The findings, in mice, suggest we may be able to read people's memories by examining the patterns in their brains, and even one day alter or repair them to treat psychiatric disorders or memory loss.

On the one hand, the results can help to develop more effective medication to treat psychiatric disorders which are characterized by an increased reactivity to social rejection, such as depression or borderline personality disorder.

Until the last few decades, the frontal lobes of the brain were shrouded in mystery and erroneously thought of as nonessential for normal function — hence the frequent use of lobotomies in the early 20th century to treat psychiatric disorders.

Science reporter Sara Reardon chats with Helen Mayberg of the Emory University School of Medicine about the scientific and ethical issues of using surgery to treat psychiatric disorders.

Micronutrients are increasingly used to treat psychiatric disorders including attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), mood disorders, stress, and anxiety.

Certain medications may cause hypothyroidism, especially ones that treat psychiatric disorders.

Lawyers for the Tennessee resident, identified as A.Y. in court papers, told jurors he started taking Risperdal at age 5 to treat a psychiatric disorder and never received a warning about breast development.

Hospital - treated psychiatric disorders in adults with a single - parent and two - parent family background: A 28 - year follow - up of the 1966 Northern Finland Birth Cohort

• Certain anti-seizure medicines (these are sometimes also used to treat psychiatric disorders like bipolar disorder)

Hospital - treated psychiatric disorders in adults with a single - parent and two - parent family background: a 28 - year follow - up of the 1966 Northern Finland birth cohort.

Not exact matches

Corcept is a pharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of drugs that treat severe metabolic, oncologic and psychiatric disorders by modulating the effects of cortisol.

Bow before me everyone, I am in a psychiatric unit being treated for megalomania and Borderline Personality Disorder.

While nutrient supplementation can have a role in treating certain psychiatric disorders, all kinds of nutrients should, in the first instance, be consumed as part of a balanced wholefood diet.

1983: Anatoly Koryagin — A psychiatrist in the Soviet Union, Dr. Koryagin made public the fact that political opponents of the Soviet government were being falsely diagnosed as having psychiatric disorders, hospitalized in special institutions, and treated with strong and potentially dangerous medications.

«Now that we've confirmed the human relevance of our findings, our future goal is to better understand the roles of the different cell types in psychiatric and neurological disorders, and to determine if targeting these cells can actually help treat seizures,» concluded Paz.

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.

A new analysis of existing studies strongly supports the idea that there are increased levels of chemicals, called cytokines, in the body and brain that promote inflammation in individuals who are contemplating or have attempted suicide, even when compared to patients being treated for the same psychiatric disorders who are not suicidal.

These drugs may be used recreationally to purposefully alter one's consciousness (such as coffee, alcohol or cannabis), as entheogens for spiritual purposes (such as the mescaline - containing peyote cactus or psilocybin - containing mushrooms), and also as medication (such as the use of narcotics in controlling pain, stimulants to treat narcolepsy and attention disorders, as well as anti-depressants and anti-psychotics for treating neurological and psychiatric illnesses).

It has been lost on no one that epigenetic medications might succeed in treating depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder where today's psychiatric drugs have failed.

Risperidone is used to treat various psychiatric disorders in adults and children, including autism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, and prescribing rates for children have increased nearly eight-fold over the last two decades.

People being treated for bipolar disorder and other psychiatric illnesses are at greater risk of attempting suicide, but physicians may now have tools to predict which of those individuals will attempt it and intervene early to prevent such tragedies from occurring.

The findings provide a good starting point for the development of drugs aimed at treating memory - related and psychiatric disorders.

In subjects without psychiatric disorders, those treated with varenicline had less neuropsychiatric symptoms and in subjects without psychiatric disorders there were no increases in these symptoms.

For example, she said, it is important to distinguish between those who are experiencing distress — which nearly everyone does in a disaster — from psychiatric disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) so that people can be treated appropriately.

Although further research into A-CRA's efficacy in treating various combinations of substance use and psychiatric disorders is warranted, the authors argue that there's no reason for providers to wait when it comes to offering comprehensive treatment to adolescents who could benefit from their help right now.

Studies are looking at these hallucinogens to treat a number of otherwise intractable psychiatric disorders, including chronic depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and drug or alcohol dependency.

Few options currently exist for treating the debilitating «negative» symptoms of severe psychiatric disorders, which include slowed movement, blunted affect, and social withdrawal.

Given clinical uncertainty over their appropriate indications, it is unclear whether their annual use rates, which ranged from 0.1 percent in younger children to 1 percent in adolescents, are above or below the rates of the psychiatric disorders they aim to treat.»

«These findings suggest that new therapeutics targeting this pathway could treat a broad range of neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders,» McAllister says.

The finding has implications for the role of TMS in investigating, not to mention treating, neurological and psychiatric disorders — and for the role of combined imaging technologies in assessing its effects.

Such medications may be appropriate for treating certain mental disorders, yet more than three - quarters of seniors receiving an antipsychotic prescription in 2010 had no documented clinical psychiatric diagnosis during the year.

«Importantly, we have identified psychiatric risks that may develop for extremely low birth weight survivors as they become adults, and this understanding will help us better predict, detect and treat mental disorders in this population,» said Dr. Ryan Van Lieshout, lead author of the study and a professor of psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences for the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster.

As well, although most of the discussion has focused on persons with difficult - to - treat depression, legalizing assisted dying for psychiatric disorders would mean that persons with schizophrenia, autism, eating disorders, PTSD, personality disorders, and even prolonged grief would be eligible to receive assisted dying.

«Although our current results are only proof of concept, we are on the way to achieving our goal of developing a local drug delivery mechanism that will be able to treat oncologic, psychiatric, neurological and neurodegenerative disorders, amongst others,» Carret concluded.

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.

For instance, optogenetics «will help us improve our understanding of how to treat different psychiatric and neurological disorders,» Bonin predicts.

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.

Dr. Pope is also a well - recognized clinician with decades of experience in treating patients with psychiatric disorders, including patients with severe mood disorders and psychotic disorders.

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.

12, 2016 — COX - 2 inhibitors — used clinically to reduce inflammation and pain — may find new applications for treating PTSD and other stress - related psychiatric disorders like major depression.

If this is true, our attempt to treat brain disorders by controlling brain chemistry with psychiatric or psychotropic drugs (the second most prescribed class of drugs after cholesterol medication) is doomed to be ineffective.

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.

Another glaring error bordering on criminality is the tendency of modern psychiatry to classify estrogen deficiency in post-menopausal women as a psychiatric disorder to be treated with psych meds.

In her Cambridge, England clinic, she successfully treats children and adults with a wide range of conditions, including autism, ADD / ADHD, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders, immune disorders, and digestive problems using the GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) Nutritional Program, which she developed.

A UKCP registered therapist with clinics in London and the Cotswolds, she treats a variety of wellbeing problems, mental health issues and psychiatric disorders.

Essential fatty acids, such as Omega - 3s, are proving valuable in treating depression and other psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, as well as benefiting infant brain development, Green said.

Why they're prescribed: Antipsychotics are used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other serious psychiatric conditions.