Sentences with phrase «use disorders which»

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However, the ubiquity of the toy, which is supposedly used as a tool to promote concentration among children with autism spectrum disorders, has been undeniable.

It's not just some random form, either — it's the PHQ - 9 (Patient Health Questionnaire), which is a self - administered and clinically validated test used to assess the most common mental disorders.

He's widely regarded as the father of a whole branch of science: disordered - materials physics, which uses unstructured elements like cesium to achieve superconductivity.

Among the fund's first investments are Apervita, a cloud - based analytics platform; SHYFT Analytics, a cloud - based pharmaceutical research platform, and Mindstrong Health, which uses machine learning to help patients assess their mental health disorders through their smartphones.

Best - known by its branded name Xanax, alprazolam is a drug that's approved used to treat anxiety and panic disorders, which are very common conditions.

M.A.P.S. plans to spin off sales to a for - profit benefit corporation, which would then funnel the money back into clinical research on the use of MDMA with other disorders.

After reducing the just causes for resort to force to one, self - defense (§ 2308), the Catechism further limits this in § 2309 by four prudential conditions, all of which it says must be satisfied: «the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or the community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective [last resort]; there must be serious prospects of success; the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.

For instance, a couple who each suffers from beta thalassemia might only have healthy children free from the inherited blood disorder if they were able to produce embryos in which the genetic defect was corrected using gene editing.

Official church statements which insist on using the term «disorder» without any distinctions or definitions will fail to receive a serious hearing from some segments of the U.S. Catholic community, including many theologians and those in the therapeutic professions.

Using the wrong oils can cause inflammation which can lead to allergies, heart disease and other autoimmune disorders.

Through CBR ®, we also help families to preserve newborn stem cells, which are used today in transplant medicine for certain cancers and blood, immune and metabolic disorders, and have the potential to play a valuable role in the ongoing development of regenerative medicine.

Sadness or depression, which can lead to poor grades at school, alcohol or drug use, unsafe sex, thoughts of suicide, and other problems (Note: Problems at school, alcohol and drug use, and other disorders can also lead to feelings of sadness or hopelessness.)

I have used various dodgy ways to deal with life, including food and drugs, which led to eating disorders and heroin addiction.

It's a mental health professional's job to use different methods to figure out exactly which disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - 5 (DSM - 5) fits your teen best.

In extremely rare cases, a baby is born with a congenital metabolic disorder such as galactosemia, which affects the ability to digest and use lactose.

The drug, which is officially used to treat gastric disorders, is often used off - label to increase milk supply for nursing mothers.

In addition, just consider the criteria which Mr. Allison uses to judge overall «success»: the absence of «major disorder» and «damage to property».

«Fellows and Members of the College are confronted daily with the health impacts of alcohol use, and also experience the effects of alcohol intoxication on behaviour, including social disorder and lawlessness which sometimes spills over into the hospital environment in general, and Emergency Departments in particular.

The new beds will be in addition to recently announced funding for expansion of services at Fairview Recovery Services on Merrick Street in Binghamton which includes $ 3.6 million for a new 18 - bed community residence offering substance use disorder treatment for women, and approval of new treatment capacity at Fairview's existing Crisis Detox facility on Court Street.

When Rubel Ahmed died in Morton Hall detention centre in September 2014, detainees started a protest, forcing staff to retreat behind a secure fence and call in a Tornado unit, which is used to quell institutional disorder.

In addition, students answered questions which were used to assess depressive symptoms, as well as evidence of conduct disorder symptoms.

So as not to be influenced by patients» discourse and analysis of their eating disorders, the researchers used a «skin conductance test,» which measures the subject's sweating rate when exposed to various images.

A team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has used a gene - editing tool known as CRISPR to repair the gene that causes sickle cell disease in human stem cells, which they say is a key step toward developing a gene therapy for the disorder.

As Saaïd Safieddine, CNRS Director of Research at the Institut Pasteur and co-senior author of the study with Prof. Christine Petit (head of the Genetics & physiology hearing unit at the Institut Pasteur), explains, «we have just shown that it is possible to partially correct a specific form of hereditary hearing loss accompanied by balance problems using local gene therapy performed after the embryogenesis of the ear, which is primarily affected by the mutation responsible for the disorder.

A study released Jan. 9 in the journal Neurogastroenterology and Motility even found that marijuana use is linked to a disorder called cyclic vomiting, which may be related to migraines and causes people to experience hours - or days - long vomiting episodes.

«The results of TOPCAT will help inform clinicians as they make treatment decisions for this understudied population,» Added Desai, «If clinicians choose to use this therapy, they must be vigilant about monitoring for serum markers of kidney and electrolyte disorders which can be exacerbated by spironolactone.»

Identifying the gene defect enables the identification of those dogs used for breeding that carry the defect, which, in turn, makes it possible to effectively eradicate the disorder from the entire breed.

The resulting disordered atomic network and its physical properties resemble those seen in some glassy materials, which has led many in the field to use them in nuclear research.

Traditional antipsychotic drugs, which have been used for 40 years, are known to alleviate symptoms of the disorder in some patients by blocking receptors of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is central to the brain's reward system as well as cognitive processing like attention and problem - solving.

For both studies, Schiestl and his team used mice that had mutations in a gene called ATM, which made them susceptible to a neurologic disorder called ataxia telangiectasia.

Friedman said warning labels similar to those on cigarette packaging should be used to communicate alcohol's risks, which include cancer, heart disease, liver disease and psychiatric disorders.

The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report recommended actions the FDA, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and health - related organizations should take — which include promoting more judicious prescribing of opioids, expanding access to treatment for opioid use disorder, preventing more overdose deaths, weighing societal impacts in opioid - related regulatory decisions, and investing in research to better understand the nature of pain and develop non-addictive alternatives.

Lithium chloride which is used as a mood stabiliser in the treatment of mental health problems, mainly bipolar disorder, could be used to treat arthritis according to a new study.

This finding led the researchers to assume that in the future it may be possible for Oxytocin to be used as a psychobiological treatment option in couple therapy as it may increase positive communication behaviors among partners, particularly among couples where the husband suffers from PTSD, and thereby it may improve the quality of the couple's marriage — which is often impaired by the disorder.

This approach has been used in other brain disorders, such as schizophrenia, which has already led to novel insights and alternative treatment approaches in that disorder.

The study, «Prescription opioid use among adults with mental health disorders in the United States,» is among the first to show the extent to which the population of Americans with mental illness use opioids.

Using the same methodology we employed for Parkinson's, our plan is to study other neurological disorders to determine whether there are disease - specific factors which explain any observed differences in the type of biomedical research most likely to receive a high Altmetric Attention Score.»

Anaesthetised rats injected with the drug, which is used to treat attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, awoke almost immediately, suggesting that the drug could be used to reverse the effects of general anaesthesia.

«Previous studies have shown inconsistent findings between sleep - disordered breathing and cognition, which may be due to the different tests used,» said lead study author Dayna A. Johnson, PhD, MPH, MS, MSW, instructor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Using statistical methods the team developed algorithms to determine which disorders are potentially biologically related to the gambling.

Rokers says showing the effects of teaching people to use cues to three - dimensional motion that they are otherwise ignoring may ultimately help refine treatment for vision disorders such as blind spots or amblyopia («lazy eye») in which the brain can be trained to compensate for perceptual limitations.

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore has developed a novel prosthetic heart valve, known as VeloX, which can be implanted using a minimally invasive approach for treatment of a serious heart valve disorder called mitral regurgitation.

The idea is for this knowledge to be used to determine which patients with the sleep disorder will later develop Parkinson's disease.

Bryant and his colleagues believe these findings may lead to new therapeutic treatments which could ultimately save lives and restore healthy eating behaviors in conditions such as compulsive overeating, bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa and even substance use disorders.

«Because JAK3 has such an isolated role in the immune system, we believe that inhibiting it will lead to a suppression of immune responses which could be used to treat autoimmune disorders like psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis.

A new test may reveal which patients will respond to treatment for graft versus host disease (GVHD), an often life - threatening complication of stem cell transplants (SCT) used to treat leukemia and other blood disorders, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published online today in the journal Lancet Haematology and in print in the January issue.

Two Dutch scientists working for the biotechnology company GenPharm International, based in California, received a patent for a transgenic mouse which is deficient in T cells and is used to study immune disorders.

«This study offers new insights about the brain in AN, which we are using to guide treatment development efforts, and reduce stigma associated with this life - threatening disorder,» added Kaye, who is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Eating Disorder Program disorder,» added Kaye, who is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Eating Disorder Program Disorder Program at UCSD.

A higher percentage of people who took PPIs regularly or occasionally also took a higher percentage of anticholinergic medications, which are often used to treat incontinence, depression, and sleep disorders.

Shanghai WA Optimum Health Care, for example, which has plush headquarters in a gated estate in one of the wealthiest areas of central Shanghai, claims success in using stem cells derived from umbilical cord or adipose tissue to treat a range of disorders, from autism to multiple sclerosis.