Psychiatry in Biological News

USC researchers head global effort to study genetic risks that contribute to psychiatric diseases

... bipolar disorder. The USC Center for Genomic psychiatry and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) together ... academic medical centers in creating the Genomic psychiatry Cohort. Blood and DNA from 40,000 subjects will ... N. Pato, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Franz Alexander ...

NARSAD announces 2008 Prizes for Outstanding Achievement in Research on Mental Health Disorders

... prizes tomorrow -- among the most coveted in psychiatry and neuroscience to six prominent scientists ... M.D., of King's College London, a leader in child psychiatry in Europe, whose groundbreaking research on ... Irving and Dorothy Bernstein Professor in Adult psychiatry and senior fellow in psychology at University of ...

Hopkins researchers piece together gene 'network' linked to schizophrenia

... M.D., Ph.D., director of the program in molecular psychiatry and associate professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Hopkins. "Now, through a ... M.D., co-director of the program in molecular psychiatry and assistant professor ...

NYU Langone Medical Center's tip sheet to the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease 2008

... Dr.P.H., Research Professor in the Department of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine ... Barry Reisberg, MD, Professor, Department of psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center EMBARGOED FOR ... Langone Medical Center; Director of the Geriatric psychiatry Program, Nathan S. Kline Institute EMBARGOED FOR ...

Can micro-scaffolding help stem cells rebuild the brain after stroke?

... (BBSRC) neurobiologists from the Institute of psychiatry and tissue engineers from The University of ... in Edinburgh, Dr Mike Modo from the Institute of psychiatry will explain how combining scaffold ... and Professor Jack Price from the Institute of psychiatry and Professor Kevin Shakesheff from The ...

Research pioneer in the developmental origins of psychiatric illness is awarded the Sackler prize

... 25, 2008, Dr. Caspi will give grand rounds in psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at ... adds Dr. B.J. Casey, the Sackler Professor of psychiatry and director of the Sackler Institute for ... in the Social, Genetic and Developmental psychiatry Research Centre at King's College London and the ...

A novel way found to prevent protein plaques implicated in Alzheimer's

... Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Departments of psychiatry and Pharmacology at New York University School of ... said Ralph A. Nixon, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of psychiatry and Cell Biology at NYU School of Medicine and ... Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent psychiatry and a Vice-Dean at NYU School of Medicine. ...

NARSAD presents 2007 prizes for outstanding achievement in neuroscience and psychiatric research

... Eve C. Johnstone, M.D., is professor of psychiatry and head of the Division of Psychiatry, ... Helen S. Mayberg, M.D., is professor of psychiatry and neurology at Emory University School of ... University Professor of Neuroscience and psychiatry and co-director of the Molecular and Behavioral ...

Brain difference in psychopaths identified

... and colleagues Dr Michael Craig and Dr Marco Catani from the Institute of psychiatry at King's College London have found differences in the brain which may ... 'Altered connections on the road to psychopathy', published in Molecular psychiatry . The research investigated the brain biology of psychopaths with ...

22nd Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Sept. 12-16, 2009, Turkey

... it includes research of neuropathology, pharmacodynamics (drug action), psychiatry and neurology. It also has an impact on emerging cross-disciplinary ... a number of activities stimulating cross-disciplinary forces ranging from psychiatry to neurology, pharmacology and psychology to carry out research on brain ...

Psychiatric disorders are common in adults who have had anorexia

... says Elisabet Wentz, Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent psychiatry at the Sahlgrenska Academy. The research group has published new results from the study in two scientific journals: the British Journal of psychiatry and the International Journal of Eating Disorders . Three women have ...

After a few drinks, older adults more impaired than they think

... and need to apply the brakes," said lead author Sara Jo Nixon, Ph.D., a psychiatry professor at UF's McKnight Brain Institute. "It can mean the difference ... drinking and driving," said Edith Vioni Sullivan, Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. "We ...

1 drug may help people both lay down the drink and put out the cigarette

... placebo, according to a study published online in the journal Biological psychiatry . The group taking varenicline, sold as a stop-smoking aid under the ... and tobacco use disorders," said Sherry McKee, associate professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study. Smokers ...

UT Health Science Center researchers study diet and autism

... studies on autism in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The University of Texas Medical School at ... said Katherine Loveland, Ph.D., co-investigator and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, pediatrics and biomedical sciences at the health ...

Scientists ask whether microscaffolding can help stem cells rebuild brain after stroke damage

... at the conference in Edinburgh, Dr Mike Modo from the Institute of psychiatry will explain how combining scaffold microparticles with neural stem cells ... Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) neurobiologists from the Institute of psychiatry (Dr Mike Modo & Prof Jack Price) and tissue engineers from the University ...

Pediatricians alerted to the developmental nature of underage drinking in special journal supplement

... and disorders in young people. Robert A. Zucker, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his team looked the ... outcome studies discussed by Deborah Deas, M.D., M.P.H., professor of psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, include ...

Genetic variant predicts antipsychotic response for schizophrenia patients by ethnicity

... with schizophrenia. John H. Krystal, M.D., Editor of Biological psychiatry and affiliated with both Yale University School of Medicine and the VA ... process. A new study published in the January 1st issue of Biological psychiatry provides some interesting data to aid in that goal. The authors report ...

New treatment mechanisms for schizophrenia

... of new medications in our clinics. The January 1st issue of Biological psychiatry includes encouraging new research related to three new treatment ... such as schizophrenia. John H. Krystal, M.D., Editor of Biological psychiatry and affiliated with both Yale University School of Medicine and the VA ...

20th ECNP Congress 2007, Oct. 13-17, Vienna, Austria

... people struck by mental disorders, and vigorously reinforce the value of psychiatry and related disciplines for society. 20th ECNP Congress, Vienna ... that this session will stimulate discussion of pharmaco-economic issues in psychiatry and will lead to greater physician involvement in the ongoing ...

Women more depressed and men more impulsive with reduced serotonin functioning

... A new study being published in the September 15th issue of Biological psychiatry now reports on important sex and genetic differences in the way that men ... impulse control disorders. John H. Krystal, M.D., Editor of Biological psychiatry and affiliated with both Yale University School of Medicine and the VA ...

Hormone levels contribute to stress resilience

... final underwater navigation exam than those with less DHEA. These findings are being published by Elsevier in the August 15th issue of Biological psychiatry . Underwater navigation is a task that relies on an area of the brain called the hippocampus that is very sensitive to the negative effects of ...

UCLA researchers discover new molecular pathway for targeting cancer, disease

... of hedgehog pathway modulation," said study author Dr. James A. Waschek, an expert on Hh signaling in brain tumor development and a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "This has great potential in offering other options, because current ...

A 'heart healthy' diet and ongoing, moderate physical activity may protect against cognitive decline

... known about the impact of changes in physical activity levels on rate of cognitive decline. Deborah E. Barnes, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and a geriatrics researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and colleagues studied changes in ...

Fatty foods -- not empty stomach -- fire up hunger hormone

... that could be targeted in future treatments for metabolic diseases. The laboratory study, led by Matthias Tschp, MD, UC associate professor of psychiatry and internal medicine, is published online ahead of print Friday, June 5, 2009, in the journal Nature Medicine . Ghrelin is a hormone that was ...

Genetic factors may predict depression in heart disease patients

... may be a novel mechanism contributing to depressive symptoms among heart disease patients," said McCaffery, who is also an assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Researchers note that the candidate gene approach used in the study ...

Cocaine: Perceived as a reward by the brain?

... the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre, which was published in the journal Biological psychiatry on May 15, 2009, not only demonstrates a link between cocaine and the reward circuits in the brain but also associates the susceptibility to ...

MCG researcher among first to receive NIH stimulus funding

... The multidisciplinary research team also includes three MCG School of Medicine faculty members: Dr. Peter Buckley, chair of the Department of psychiatry and Health Behavior, Dr. Harold Szerlip, professor in the Sections of Nephrology, Hypertension and Transplantation Medicine and Pulmonary Disease, ...

Your brain on -- and off -- caffeine

... the extent to which there are net beneficial effects of daily caffeine administration," said Stacey Sigmon, Ph.D., research associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont and first author on the study. "In contrast to what most of us coffee lovers would think, our study showed no difference ...

Brain protein central to both Parkinson's, drug addiction identified

... deadly to dopamine neurons. More than 20 years ago, as a graduate student with Solomon Snyder, M.D., Jonathan Javitch, M.D., Ph.D., now professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at Columbia and an author on the current paper, concluded that MPP+ is released from astrocytes before it kills dopaminergic ....

Altered gene can increase risk of schizophrenia

... consistent with the growing trend of personalized medicine. The research findings are reported in the April issue of the American Journal of psychiatry (AJP). An accompanying editorial highlights the significance of this work. Brzustowicz, a professor of genetics at Rutgers, The State University ...

Researchers discover link between schizophrenia and diabetes

... factors, 16 percent had either diabetes or an abnormal rate of glucose metabolism, says Dr. Brian Kirkpatrick, vice chair of the MCG Department of psychiatry and Health Behavior. In a similar size control group of people without schizophrenia, none had signs of or had developed the disease. People with ...

Daily consumption of cannabis predisposes to the appearance of psychosis and schizophrenia

... with a high consumption of cannabis. The results of this research work have been published in the journals Schizophrenia Research and European psychiatry , two of the most renowned worldwide publications in this research field. ...

NIH funds research center for women's reproductive health at Einstein

... gynecology and women's health. "IGF-I and Neuroendocrine Regulation of Female Reproductive Function"Anne Etgen, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience, of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and of pediatrics; and Genevieve Neal-Perry, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of obstetrics & gynecology and women's health ...

Stem cells replace stroke-damaged tissue in rats

... Research Council (BBSRC) and led by Dr Mike Modo of the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. The work, carried out at the Institute of psychiatry and University of Nottingham, shows that by inserting tiny scaffolding with stem cells attached, it is possible to fill a hole left by stroke damage ...

World's experts identify the hottest trends in biology and medicine

... F1000 Reports are easy routes to the must-read content. Judith Rapoport, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Chief, Child psychiatry Branch, National Institutes of Health comments "Having respected colleagues summarize the major advances in clinical practice is invaluable. F1000 ...

Epstein-Barr virus may be associated with progression of MS

... Institute (JNI) and first author on the study. The research appears in the Online First section of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and psychiatry and is available at http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/rapidpdf/jnnp.2008.154906v1 . "A growing body of experimental evidence indicates that past ...

New and unexpected mechanism identified how the brain responds to stress

... avenues for controlling stress responses" says Yves De Koninck, PhD, president-elect of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience and professor of psychiatry at Laval University. "I was fascinated when I learned of this work. It has not been clear till now how the neuroendocrine stress response was ...

Autism Speaks funds $5 million to studies on genetic and environmental risk factors for autism

... basis for early changes in brain volume and neural circuitry concurrent with the emergence of autistic behavior," explained Dr. Piven Professor of psychiatry and Director of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities who directs IBIS at UNC-Chapel Hill. "It is our hope that this study will lead ...

UMMS researchers publish DNA identification of czar's children

... of the National Academy of Sciences , "Genomic identification in historical case of Nicholas II Royal family" by Evgeny I. Rogaev, PhD, professor of psychiatry at UMass Medical School's Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute and professor of genetics at the Russian Academic Institutions, and his ...

UT Southwestern researchers identify molecule that helps the sleep-deprived to mentally rebound

... going to bed late, getting up early, and somehow performing mentally with lack of adequate sleep," said senior author Dr. Robert Greene, professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern. "We need to have our adenosine receptors intact to do that." Adenosine receptors on nerve cells, including brain cells, are ...