Sentences with phrase «treatments against this disorder»

«The findings also suggest that therapies targeting the immune system may be effective treatments against this disorder and possibly other forms of epilepsy,» said Nath.

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1) Slowly decreasing stigma against seeking help for common mental ailments such as depression and bipolar disorder encourage those who suffer to report and seek treatment.

For non-depressed, pregnant women with histories of major depressive disorder, preventive treatment with antidepressants may not necessarily protect against postpartum depression, according to new UCLA research.

Connecting to your past can strengthen your defences against depression and PTSD, suggesting new treatments for these disorders

Connecting to your past can strengthen your defences against depression and PTSD, suggesting new treatments for these disorders, says David Robson

Bioengineers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have shown for the first time that lithium chloride, a common drug used to treat mental health disorders, could offer an effective treatment against osteoarthritis by disrupting the length of the cells» antennae called primary cilia.

«This study confirms previous research findings that the refusal of patients to receive treatment and their perception of the eating disorder may change during treatment, even in cases of the patient receiving treatment against their initial will.

In a February report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Francesco Fornai, an anatomy professor and physician at the University of Pisa, found that lithium — well known as a treatment for bipolar disorder — might also work against ALS.

However, those extremely low birth weight babies who received a full course of life - saving steroids before birth as part of their treatment had even higher odds (nearly four and a half times) of those same psychiatric issues, and they were not protected against alcohol or substance use disorders.

The acquisition of this knowledge will be essential to develop new treatments against developmental disorders and could also help understand adult diseases such as diabetes that may originate during the early stage of life.

In 2006 two Dartmouth College scientists published an article speaking out against RLS coverage, claiming that the disorder's prevalence, and the need for drug treatment, is often exaggerated.

About Blog A film about OCD in children and teens focuses on OCD treatment and how kids can learn to fight back against this mental disorder.

But most people — scientists included — are astonished to realize that most of our antibiotics to combat infections, chemotherapy drugs against cancer, psychotropic drugs which modify mood disorders, and many advances in cardiovascular treatments and procedures were stumbled upon.

Against accepted neurological lore, he restored partial consciousness in patients in the persistent vegetative state and introduced motor cortex stimulation for the treatment of movement disorders and stroke rehabilitation.

I will argue these arrangements discriminate unfairly against people with mental disorders, by subjecting them to less favourable treatment under the law, and that this situation should be remedied.

Randee has successfully handled several class actions, including a trio of landmark ERISA class actions against major health insurers, which established coverage for 4 million individuals for the treatment of eating disorders as well as the recovery of millions of dollars of wrongfully denied benefits.

Many universities have made it a compulsory option for the insurance to have coverage over specific risks like drug dependency, nervous or mental disorders, alcoholism, and damages due to inter-collegiate sports, pregnancy, mammography and treatment against cancer.

About Blog A film about OCD in children and teens focuses on OCD treatment and how kids can learn to fight back against this mental disorder.

Possibly, mania is a more purely biologically driven phenomenon than bipolar depression, with onsets more readily attributable to medication inconsistency, sleep deprivation, circadian disruption, or behavioral activation.21,22,84 - 86 In contrast, social and familial support has been found to protect against depression in bipolar and unipolar affective disorders, but the role of these variables in manic recurrences is unclear.86 - 88 An analysis of laboratory interactional data from a subset of 44 families in this sample revealed that treatment - related improvements in family communication skills were more closely associated with reductions in patients» depressive than manic symptoms.56 Thus, manic and depressive symptoms may be influenced by different constellations of risk and protective factors.

Failure to possess the requisite professional knowledge, training, and expertise in attachment theory, personality disorder processes (particularly narcissistic an borderline personality dynamics and their characteristic decompensation under stress), and in family systems constructs (particularly centering on the child's triangulation into the spousal conflict through a cross-generational parent - child coalition against the other parent) which is necessary for competent professional diagnosis and treatment with this «special population» of children and families may represent practice beyond the boundaries of professional competence in violation of professional practice standards.

Fortunately, conducting randomized trials over the decades, intervention researchers have produced numerous manual - guided, evidence - based treatments (EBTs) for depression, anxiety, and conduct in youth.2 Unfortunately, these treatments have not been incorporated into most everyday clinical practice.3 - 5 A common view is that the complexity and comorbidity of many clinically referred youths, whose problems and treatment needs can shift during treatment, may pose problems for EBT protocols, which are typically designed for single or homogeneous clusters of disorders, developed and tested with recruited youths who differ from patients seen in everyday clinical practice, and involve a predetermined sequence of prescribed session contents, limiting their flexibility.3 - 8 Indeed, trials testing these protocols against usual care for young patients in clinical practice have produced mixed findings, with EBTs often failing to outperform usual care.7, 9