Sentences with phrase «with psychiatric diseases»

Inflammatory molecules stimulate microglia activation, which is commonly found in brains of those with psychiatric diseases, such as those of children with autism.

Those with psychiatric disease simply have stronger beliefs.

«Especially for women with no prior experience with psychiatric disease, this must come as a bolt out of the blue.»

How well the biomarkers would work among people who have not been diagnosed with a psychiatric disease is not known.

Dr. Deisseroth is the D.H. Chen Professor in the Bioengineering and Psychiatry Departments at Stanford University, and is a practicing inpatient and outpatient psychiatrist, employing medications and interventional brain stimulation techniques (VNS, TMS, and others) to treat patients with psychiatric disease.

Table 1 also reports the percentage of spouses who died within a year after their own hospitalization; as expected, the diseases show substantial variation in lethality, with one - year death rates varying from 7.3 percent (for women with psychiatric disease) to 82.0 percent (for men with pancreatic cancer).

«Especially for women with no prior experience with psychiatric disease, this must come as a bolt out of the blue.»

Not exact matches

More than a quarter (27 percent) of the doctors said they would kill an elderly person «with medical grounds for suffering but in the absence of severe physical or psychiatric disease.»

Govoni says that when patients are treated for psychiatric disease, the creative impulses often associated with bipolar disorder, dementia, or even depression may fall by the wayside.

The genetic variants associated with asthma have also effects on autoimmune diseases and other diseases with an inflammatory component such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, neuro - psychiatric diseases, which strengthens the importance of pleiotropy in multifactorial diseases.

What we do know is that the disease is associated with psychiatric symptoms, memory lapses, seizures and tumors, among other problems.

The brain is, after all, encased within the skull, and brain biopsies are not feasible for the vast majority of patients with psychiatric and neurologic disease.

And even where therapies have a track record, physicians (and parents) must differentiate between psychiatric disease, infectious disease and autoimmunity with care.

«While many patients with Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis present with isolated psychiatric symptoms, most of these patients subsequently develop, in a matter of days, additional neurological symptoms which help to make the diagnosis of the disease.

«This study convincingly shows that mild trauma has a role in increasing the risk of dementia and sheds light on the more complex relationship between medical and psychiatric diseases with TBI in the development of the future risk of dementias.

From that experience, Deisseroth determined that he would spend his life solving a core puzzle of psychiatric disease: A brain could appear undamaged, with no dead tissue or anatomical deformities, yet something could be so wrong it destroyed patients» lives.

New research led by UC San Francisco scientists has revealed that mutations in a gene linked with brain development may dispose people to multiple forms of psychiatric disease by changing the way brain cells communicate.

It is perhaps thus likely that that these damaged genes coding for psychiatric diseases are overrepresented in women with fertility problems, and, if transferred to their offspring, this may at least partly explain the increased risk of psychiatric diseases.»

And even if such a demand existed, there was no evidence that genetic counseling could help patients with psychiatric disorders, which — like most of the more common diseases — are caused by a complex interplay of multiple genes and variants as well as environmental factors.

The new study — published October 18, 2016 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry — combined genetic analysis of more than 9,000 human psychiatric patients with brain imaging, electrophysiology, and pharmacological experiments in mutant mice to suggest that mutations in the gene DIXDC1 may act as a general risk factor for psychiatric disease by interfering with the way the brain regulates connections between neurons.

The new finding is the latest evidence supporting a growing precision medicine model of psychiatric disease in which disruptions of certain genes during brain development contribute to a person's risk for multiple psychiatric disorders, with other genetic or epigenetic drivers, random developmental events, or environmental influences determining the specific disease an individual develops, said senior author Benjamin Cheyette, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry and a member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF.

Together with research into other immune - related genes in diseases such as Alzheimer's, the idea that immune processes are involved in some psychiatric phenotypes is looking ever more solid.

As someone who has unfortunately been involved with numerous close relatives (a daughter, a brother and a wife who were given this diagnosis) and having worked in state psychiatric wards and witnessed seriously ill schizophrenics firsthand, I am convinced there is organic impairment of some kind responsible for this very painful disease.

But new research presented at the American Diabetes Association's 74th Scientific Sessions ® shows that symptoms of depression in people with type 2 diabetes can be significantly reduced through interventions for «diabetes distress,» suggesting that much of what is being labeled as depression may not be a co-morbid psychiatric disorder after all, but rather a reaction to living with a stressful, complex disease that is often difficult to manage.

In this paper, Fox led a team that first conducted a large - scale literature search to identify all neurological and psychiatric diseases where improvement had been seen with both invasive and noninvasive brain stimulation.

«This study illustrates the potential of gaining fundamental insights into brain function while helping patients with debilitating diseases, and provides us with a powerful way of selecting targets based on their connectivity to other regions that can be widely applied to help guide brain stimulation therapy across multiple neurological and psychiatric disorders.»

Marijuana abusers were excluded if they had a history of substance abuse or dependence (other than marijuana and nicotine), history of other psychiatric or neurological diseases, medical conditions that might alter cerebral function (i.e., cardiovascular, endocrinological, oncological, autoimmune diseases), current use of prescribed or over-the-counter medications, and / or head trauma with loss of consciousness for more than 30 min.

Several metabolic and psychiatric diseases are associated with circadian rhythm and sleep disturbances, and this research opens the doors toward an improved understanding of these disorders.

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.

Furthermore, her research has also influenced the development of tests to assess, diagnose and treat people with brain disorders resulting from traumatic injury and degenerative diseases, as well as from psychiatric illness.

Abstract: Patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) often exhibit psychiatric symptoms associated with cognitive impairment.

Patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) often exhibit psychiatric symptoms associated with cognitive impairment.

This work should lead to a better understanding of not only neuropsychiatric diseases associated with autoantibodies but also of more common neurological or psychiatric diseases in which similar protein dysfunction are reported.

«Early on, we wanted the center to be built on a foundation bridging two major care needs of families coping with Huntington's disease — psychiatric and neurologic,» explains Steven A. Epstein, chair of psychiatry at MedStar Georgetown and professor of psychiatry at Georgetown's School of Medicine.

Merzenich is now applying his basic research findings to the development and testing of new tools for improving brain function in people with a range of neurological and psychiatric conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease or schizophrenia, or following brain injury.

Imamizu said the new brain training system could potentially help people with Alzheimer's disease, psychiatric disorders, or complications from a stroke.

Patients with cephalosporin allergy or a history of significant psychiatric disorder prior to onset of Lyme disease were also excluded.

By reprogramming human skin cells and other cells from patients with neurologic and psychiatric diseases into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and induced neurons (iN), his work seeks to decipher the progression and mechanisms that lead to brain cell dysfunction.

Most of us conduct research on basic processes of cognition and emotion with the goal of helping to guide the development of interventions that can improve functioning in both healthy people and those with psychiatric or neurodegenerative disease - or at least that's what we say in our grant applications!

MONDAY, Oct. 6 (Health.com)-- About 44 % of children diagnosed with bipolar disorder continue to have symptoms of the psychiatric disease in adulthood, according to the first study to follow such children over time.

There already exists a bidirectional relationship between all of the major chronic diseases and psychiatric diagnoses (patients who struggle with chronic diseases are more likely to be depressed and vice versa).

Other neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with mercury include narcolepsy, obsessive - compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, Tourette syndrome and borderline personality disorder, as well as neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis.

It's no mystery, then, why so many people with autoimmune disease experience comorbid psychiatric illnesses such as anxiety and depression, which are inextricably linked to brain inflammation.

2 Although CD affects only 1 % of the population officially, it is associated with many autoimmune comorbidities of the neuromusculoskletal systems like myesthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis, peripheral neuropathy, cerebellar ataxia, myalgia (muscle pain), multiple myoclonus, depression, anxiety, psychiatric disease, and many others.

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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.

In Singapore, cancer is still seen as a terminal disease with little hope of recovery, and there is also a stigma against psychological counselling and psychiatric support, facilitated by the general stigma against mental illness amongt both patients and, paradoxically, healthcare professionals.67 Furthermore, a family - centred model of decision - making tends to be predominant in Asian populations, 68 and in Singapore this is further encouraged by public policy such as healthcare subsidies that are based on a calculation of the immediate family's total income, rather than individual income.69 Beliefs or expectations of the role that the family caregiver ought to play may thus exist and may influence the way individuals respond to the intervention.

Functional expectations of caregivers are often huge with multiple responsibilities such as household chores, emotional support, providing transportation and symptom management.4 As cancer survivorship grows, from 50 % in the 70s, to 54 % between 1983 and 1985, to 65 % in 2009, the illness may become a chronic disease, further stressing caregivers with a cumulative and unrelenting burden of care and responsibility.5 Psychological morbidity or psychiatric symptomatology among cancer caregivers is high.6, 7 Levels of distress have also been shown to be higher than those reported by patients themselves.8

A 14 session cognitive behavioural family intervention reduced psychiatric morbidity in caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease compared with a 1 session cathartic interview or a no interview control group, and improved patient activities of daily living at 3 months of follow up.

Thus apart from managing the scabies or impetigo they present with, I commence management of the previously undiagnosed diabetes, treatment for the asymptomatic STI or renal disease, and counselling and or medication for suicidal depression and other psychiatric illness.