Sentences with phrase «underlying psychiatric disease»

This is demonstrated in the studies reviewed in the special issue, which use computational models to examine brain processes, such as learning, emotion, dopamine signaling and information processing, and how processes interact in deficits underlying psychiatric disease.

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On the negative side, the researchers found that many of the genes whose activity is unique to modern humans are linked to diseases like Alzheimer's disease, autism and schizophrenia, suggesting that these recent changes in our brain may underlie some of the psychiatric disorders that are so common in humans today.

The researchers» strategy — generating disease - specific nerve cells, identifying a causative gene for developmental defects, validating the gene - specific defect in animal models, and then investigating interactions with other genes both in animal models and in humans — represents a promising new approach for understanding the mechanisms underlying some of the most intractable psychiatric illnesses.

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.