Sentences with phrase «with schizophrenia and bipolar»

Fish oil is also seen to be effective in improving the lives of those with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (18, 19, 20, 21).

Test finds people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders have biological markers

«This is not to say that people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder aren't overrepresented in the homeless population,» says David Pollio, Ph.D., associate professor of social work at Washington University's George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

This possibility is supported by findings of a decreased number of CA2 inhibitory neurons in individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and altered vasopressin signaling in autism.

Patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders were also less likely to benefit from the community programs, because of the nature and severity of their mental health issues.

Published in Nature Neuroscience, this new study lends support to the direct influence on creativity of genes found in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

«Although we can not demonstrate a direct link between Candida infection and physiological brain processes, our data show that some factor associated with Candida infection, and possibly the organism itself, plays a role in affecting the memory of women with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and this is an avenue that needs to be further explored,» says Severance.

However, the researchers noticed that women with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder who had a history of Candida infection had lower scores on the memory portions of this test compared to those women with no prior infection.

People with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder die on average 15 - 20 years younger than the general population, and smoking plays a massive part in that.

Not exact matches

I am a clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of individuals who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other severe mental health disorders.

LifeWay Research asked three groups of Protestants — pastors, family members of people with acute mental illness (severe depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia), and those with such illnesses — when «psychological therapy» should be used.

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.

More modest NADH increases were also seen in bipolar disorder, which shares some genetic and clinical overlap with schizophrenia.

The figures are quite striking, with x10 risk of developing schizophrenia, and similar risks once a sibling has developed bipolar disorder.

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.

Conditions that cause the brain's receptors to stop functioning properly are often mistaken for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder because these diseases are associated with a decrease in activity of the NMDA receptors, which control how someone thinks, makes decisions, and perceives the world around them.

These changes were on genes that have been linked with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

One gene, called ZNF659, showed over-methylation in people with schizophrenia and under - methylation in those who were bipolar, suggesting that the conditions might result from opposing gene activity (Human Molecular Genetics, DOI: 10.1093 / hmg / ddr416).

Led by Brenda Penninx, PhD, of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the study found that patients with an early age at onset and higher symptom severity have an increased genetic risk for MDD, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

Subjects included 119 healthy volunteers and 26,683 patients with a variety of psychiatric conditions such as brain trauma, bipolar disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia / psychotic disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

For the 2.2 million Americans with schizophrenia and the 5.7 million Americans with bipolar disorder, the increased prevalence of obesity and its related diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease is particularly disconcerting.

In both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, BMI was more strongly correlated with waist circumference than with percent body fat, suggesting a central obesity pattern in addition to waist circumference, representing a reasonably accurate proxy measure for body fat distribution.

They contend that mental illness can be thought of as occupying a spectrum, with autism at one end and schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression at the other.

«Veterans with PTSD and people with mental illness such as bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia are prone to anxiety, which can escalate during stressful social encounters such as the job interview,» said Matthew J. Smith, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

The current study began with a group of 217 male psychiatric participants, followed by Dr. Niculescu and colleagues for several years with diagnoses of bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophrenia.

Of 165 subjects, 55 were diagnosed with bipolar disorder, 21 with major depression and seven with schizophrenia.

Similarly, people with mental illness are more than twice as likely to smoke cigarettes as the general population, with estimated prevalence rates ranging between 45 to 88 per cent among people with schizophrenia, 58 to 90 per cent among those with bipolar disorder and 37 to 73 per cent among people with a major depressive disorder, compared to a rate of about 20 per cent in the general population.

Study participants included 70 individuals with severe mental illness (bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder) or U.S. military veterans who had a diagnosis of PTSD and a mood or psychotic disorder.

In their new paper, Cheyette and his team examined the gene DIXDC1 — a key piece of the WNT signaling pathway that is active in tissues of the brain and interacts with DISC1, a gene implicated in schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorders.

Mutations seen in people with autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder cause loss of synapses in mice

First, an analysis of genomic data from 6,000 patients with autism spectrum disorders, 1,000 patients with bipolar disorder, and 2,500 patients with schizophrenia by co-first author Pierre - Marie Martin, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Cheyette's lab, revealed that disruptive mutations in the main neuronal form of DIXDC1 were present about 80 percent more often in psychiatric patients (0.9 percent had mutations) compared to healthy controls (0.5 percent had mutations).

One of the biggest challenges will be to unite these disparate methodologies to tease apart the normal and abnormal working of the brain in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and the like, diseases that devastate the lives of so many and are so often associated with early death.

Data were collected in 46 children and adolescents ages 8 to 20, half at genetic risk for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder by virtue of having one or both parents with either illness.

A 2012 review from Stanford researchers analyzed over 50 studies that used neuroimaging - that is, MRI, fMRI, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and anything else that takes before - and - after pictures of the brain - to examine the brains of kids with a variety of mental illnesses: anorexia, ADHD, autism, bipolar disorder, depression, OCD, and schizophrenia.

Of these, 1,514 were classified as severely disordered, including people who had «chronic schizophrenia or bipolar disorders with frequent psychotic exacerbations, who need medication and assistance with activities of daily living, [as well as persons] with borderline personality disorder with frequent suicidal gestures or episodes of self - mutilation.»

The researchers found strong evidence that people with higher genetic risk for several mental disorders — including schizophrenia, and to a lesser extent bipolar and major depressive disorder — are also at higher genetic risk for developing PTSD after a traumatic event.

A rare gene variant discovered by UCL (University College London) scientists is associated with an increased risk of developing schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and alcoholism, confirms new research.

It found that people with the variant of the GRM3 gene, thought to be important in brain signalling, were at increased risk of developing bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and alcohol dependence.

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.

Six were diagnosed with delusional disorders, 23 with paranoid schizophrenia and two with bipolar disorder.

Researchers found that the gene XIST, which is responsible for inactivating one of the two copies of the X chromosome in cells that store genetic material, works overtime in female patients with mental illnesses, such as bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia.

And relatives of patients with schizophrenia also have higher than average rates of bipolar illness.

«Problems with memory, executive function, and processing speed are common symptoms of bipolar disorder, and have a direct and negative impact on an individual's daily functioning and overall quality of life,» said lead investigator Eve Lewandowski, PhD, director of clinical programming for one of McLean's schizophrenia and bipolar disorder programs and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

A team lead by Dmitri Tkachev of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, U.K., examined gene expression in frozen sections of the prefrontal cortex of 15 people with schizophrenia, 15 with bipolar disorder, and 15 healthy people.

Although antipsychotic drugs are among the most widely prescribed medications, individuals with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autism - spectrum disorders often experience severe side effects because the drugs interact with dozens of other brain receptors.

Patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and their unaffected relatives show white matter density and integrity reductions in the anterior limb of the internal capsule (ALIC).

Regional brain morphometry in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and their unaffected relatives.

Four of the genes tracked to similar genes within mice, and three were associated with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in humans.

Bipolar disorder may share the same genetic roots with other psychiatric conditions such as autism and schizophrenia.

Problems with another gene, which codes for catechol - O - methyl transferase (COMT), could interfere with the metabolism of dopamine, increase the risk of schizophrenia and affect the frequency of manic cycles in bipolar disease.