Sentences with phrase «used in schizophrenia»

An Emotional Training program «Mind Reading» developed by Researcher Simon Baron - Cohen is software designed for autistic children, but being used in schizophrenia research and possibly of value to children at high risk of schizophrenia (i.e. a child with close family relatives who have had schizophrenia).

Dr. Robert Buchanan of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center reported on several promising cognitive enhancers that are being clinically tested for their use in schizophrenia treatment.

Not exact matches

An example of this Christian schizophrenia is the embarrassment caused to the World Council of Churches by a report of one of its consultations on the need for a non-anthropocentric ethic, and in particular the need for Christian concern for oppressed animals, especially those used for human purposes.

«The regular use of cannabis is known to be associated with an increase in the risk of later developing psychotic illnesses including schizophrenia.

It's «an important technical advance,» said neuroscientist Michal Stachowiak of the State University of New York, Buffalo, who created human cerebral organoids to study schizophrenia, and «an important initial step toward using organoids in regenerative medicine.»

Drs. Jentsch, London, and Ringach are researchers at UCLA who used non-human primates in their research on schizophrenia, addiction, and visual processing.

While some evidence was found to support hypotheses that cannabis use is a contributory factor in increasing the risk of schizophrenia, the researchers were surprised to find stronger evidence that the opposite was also likely.

Using a new kind of MRI measurement, neuroscientists reported higher levels of oxidative stress in patients with schizophrenia, when compared both to healthy individuals and those with bipolar disorder.

Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»

In the heady postwar years, hundreds of promising studies were conducted in the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depressioIn the heady postwar years, hundreds of promising studies were conducted in the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depressioin the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depression.

Doctors in Italy first used electroconvulsive therapy in 1938 to treat schizophrenia; in the decades that followed, the treatment spread to other countries and other disorders, especially depression.

Research presented at a Berlin psychiatric conference shows teenage cannabis use hastens onset of schizophrenia in vulnerable individuals

Now a large survey using data from all patients hospitalized in psychiatric wards in Israel, and their siblings, has given some answers: having a sibling with schizophrenia increases your risk of developing the condition by a factor of x10, with increased risks of developing bipolar disorder and other mental disorders.

Study shows memories formed by the same gene - silencing tool used in embryonic development; a finding could set the stage for new therapies for schizophrenia

As wider use of antipsychotics allowed people with schizophrenia to live in the community rather than a psychiatric hospital, they are often credited with bringing an end to the often inhumane asylums.

Using a technique called nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the researchers measured the concentrations of 21 metabolites key to nerve function in the brains of 10 deceased schizophrenia patients and 12 normal human controls.

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.

Wilson's article does point out some interesting initial evidence against the long - term use of antipsychotics in schizophrenia.

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.

I wonder how many other opportunities have been lost in the past 40 years with important drugs, like MDMA (ecstasy) and its empathetic qualities or cannabis for all its possible uses and insights into conditions like schizophrenia.

We can already see the beginnings of the application of such knowledge in using scanning technologies to diagnose schizophrenia and to detect subtle racist or sexist thought patterns as well as in implant surgery to treat parkinsonism and in the emergence of drugs such as Ritalin and Ambien.

But Perron is emphatic: Although the research looks promising, especially for use in MS, a lot still needs to be done until we can see this as a general treatment for schizophrenia or MS.

One that cannabis use is a causal factor for schizophrenia, or that it precipitates psychosis in vulnerable people.

Instead, he hopes it could be used in Alzheimer's and schizophrenia to help identify faults in the connections needed to perform everyday tasks.

Antipsychotics were originally developed for use in patients with schizophrenia or psychosis, but the study shows that «off - label» prescribing of these drugs to treat the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia is a common practice in care homes.

«Given the solid epidemiologic evidence supporting a link between cannabis exposure during adolescence and schizophrenia, we investigated whether the use of cannabis during early adolescence (by 16 years of age) is associated with variations in brain maturation as a function of genetic risk for schizophrenia,» said senior author Tomas Paus, MD, PhD, the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Professor and Chair in Population Neuroscience at Baycrest, University of Toronto, and the Dr. John and Consuela Phelan Scholar at Child Mind Institute, New York.

«Cold water in the left ear significantly increased patients» insight and awareness of their schizophrenia, which we measured 30 minutes after the test, compared with the sham or placebo treatment using room temperature water,» says Dr. Gerretsen.

Alcohol and drug use disorders are believed to have substantial negative effects on outcomes in people with schizophrenia.

The discovery, made from a combined analysis of over 1,500 youth, contributes to a growing body of evidence implicating cannabis use in adolescence and schizophrenia later in life.

«Cannabis use may influence cortical maturation in adolescent males:... who have a high genetic risk for schizophrenia.»

Dr. Gerretsen devised the idea of using this test for schizophrenia based on research in paralyzed patients with stroke damage who lacked awareness of their paralysis.

«Alcohol use in veterans with schizophrenia less common than thought; no level safe.»

The study was conducted using postmortem brains from the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center, in which 15 brains were used from healthy controls, 15 with bipolar disorder, and 12 with schizophrenia.

Leweke's team also found anandamide levels lowest in people with schizophrenia who used cannabis more frequently, suggesting it may disrupt the system in other ways too.

But from his experience of using videoconferencing to treat people with schizophrenia in remote parts of Australia he is optimistic that many will be able to distinguish between real hallucinations and the virtual ones.

Malaspina used the Israeli group to look first at the risk of schizophrenia in children of older fathers — and then at the risk of autism.

We have just started a multicenter trial using simvastatine to reduce inflammation in the brain of patients with schizophrenia.

After using clozapine - N - oxide to reduce MD activity in the mice by 30 % to 40 %, the team ran them through a series of tasks designed to assess cognitive skills that are often affected in schizophrenia.

Paul Meehl was renowned for many things: his insistence on statistical and research rigor; his prescient views on schizophrenia; his advancements in psychotherapy; his creation of one of the scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI — one of the most widely used tests of personality in clinical research and practice.)

The stimulator had previously been used to treat depression, obsessive - compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia, in addition to epilepsy.

We will need to carry out further studies with larger sample sizes to confirm the current findings, but we hope that, used in conjunction with medication and current psychological therapies, this could help people with schizophrenia minimise the impact of their illness on everyday life.»

Interestingly, an imaging study comparing DA increases using BPND and 4 - propyl -9-hydroxynaphthoxazine -LRB-[11C] PHNO)(radiotracer with > 20-fold higher affinity for D3 over D2 receptors, and presumably more sensitive to competition with endogenous DA)(63, 64) in response to a stressor in individuals at high risk for schizophrenia showed that those who abused marijuana had a blunted response, consistent with decreased DA signaling (22).

Through the use of stem cell - based organoids researchers are making big strides in the study of neurodevelopmental diseases such as schizophrenia and autism.

I - Stem, the Institute for Stem cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic Diseases, has signed an agreement with Swissbased healthcare company Roche to use I - Stem's technologies in discovering novel therapies to treat devastating central nervous system (CNS) diseases such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, depression and anxiety.

«There is now consistent evidence that heavy cannabis use, particularly during adolescence, can increase the risk of paranoid psychosis, which is typically seen in schizophrenia, a potentially devastating mental illness.

And while 100 subjects used to be considered «a huge data set,» she says, with effect sizes as small as they are in schizophrenia, researchers need to look at thousands to «really get a sense what's going on.»

This means that adoptees with high - genetic risk for schizophrenia - related disorders did not have any measurable impact on parental communication and care giving skills, or on the functioning of the rest of the family, according to the OPAS rating system that was used to evaluate the families in the study.

And earlier this year at the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, Turner's team presented results they're now writing up on the cortical thickness and surface area of schizophrenia patients, using data from more than 30 centers in Australia, Korea, Japan, South Africa, Europe, and the U.S. «The goal is replicability,» says Turner.

So, whereas the typical person might think of their «environment» as their house, or their neighborhood - scientists trying to understand the factors that influence the development of schizophrenia define environment to include everything from the social, nutritional, hormonal and chemical environment in the womb of the mother during pregnancy, up to the social dynamics and stress a person is exposed to, to street drug use, education, virus exposure, vitamin use, and any other factor that could possibly be involved with the development of schizophrenia.

Such techniques have the potential to enhance research into the origins of neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders such as microcephaly, lissencephaly, autism and schizophrenia, which are thought to affect cell types not found in the mouse models that are often used to study such diseases.