I am passionate about helping my clients understand the relationship between various addictions and
underlying psychiatric disorders.
Not exact matches
Drug maker Lundbeck, genetic testing firm 23andMe, and think tank the Milken Institute are joining forces to study the genetic bases and
underlying causes of
psychiatric disorders like major depression and bipolar
disorder.
Bierut: I am trained as a psychiatrist, so I have my medical degree and specialized training in
psychiatric disorders such as alcoholism, depression, schizophrenia, and I also have training in genetics so to understand how illnesses are transmitted through families, and so we are trying to look at how mental illnesses and addictions are transmitted in families and understand the
underlying genetic causes of them.
In this review, we summarize some of the latest findings
underlying the neurobiology of resilience, which we hope will advance the understanding and treatment of stress - related
psychiatric disorders.»
We found genetic correlations between personality traits and
psychiatric disorders, but specific variants
underlying the correlations are unknown.»
«Excessive stimulation of 5 - HT2A receptors seems to
underlay the experience of loosening of self / ego boundaries, disrupted self - referential processing and thus the related impairment of making meaning and attributing personal relevance to percepts and experiences seen in various
psychiatric disorders,» she says.
Robert Power, first author from the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre at the IoPPN, said: «For most
psychiatric disorders little is known about the
underlying biological pathways that lead to illness.
«Such evidence quantifying shared genetic risk factors among traditional
psychiatric diagnoses will help us move toward classification that will be more faithful to nature,» said Bruce Cuthbert, Ph.D., director of the NIMH Division of Adult Translational Research and Treatment Development and coordinator of the Institute's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project, which is developing a mental
disorders classification system for research based more on
underlying causes.
Despite profound sex differences in the expression of social behavior and the incidence of these
psychiatric disorders, little is known about how the brain mechanisms
underlying these phenomena differ in females and males.
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 diagnoses were assigned based on meeting the criteria of DSM III R (Diagnostic Statistical Manuel which is the industry standard for categorizing and evaluating mental illnesses) for Axis I (major mental
disorders, developmental
disorders and learning disabilities) or Axis II (
underlying pervasive or personality conditions, as well as mental retardation)
psychiatric disorders.
The limited genetic diversity of dog breeds facilitates identification of genes, functional variants and regulatory pathways
underlying complex
psychiatric disorders that are mechanistically similar in dogs and humans.
The aims of my research are to understand the neural mechanisms
underlying the development and treatment of
psychiatric disorders, and to develop neuroimaging biomarkers for treatment response.
McCormick said the spike timing is important for fine perception and may
underlie problems in the nervous system and in
psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, where the timing problem might cause confusion.
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.
The importance of considering GxE interactions in understanding the aetiology of complex
psychiatric disorders has become more widely acknowledged (Caspi & Moffitt 2006; Canli & Lesch 2007; Munafo et al. 2009), yet the association between specific cultural and genetic factors
underlying affective
disorders across human populations has been largely unexplored until now.
Many facilities also include family therapy sessions in the process of treatment or offer
psychiatric treatment if the patient has
underlying co-occurring mental health
disorders.
We pull from two established developmental theories including both the externalizing pathway and the internalizing pathway to substance use
disorders, which together highlight how early embedded risk in the form of emotion regulation deficits can explain mechanisms
underlying the development of addiction and comorbid
psychiatric disorders.