schizophrenia Archives - Gateway Psychiatric Excellent Psychiatric Care Wed, 08 Sep 2021 19:39:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 schizophrenia Archives - Gateway Psychiatric 32 32 70562394 Family Risk of Bipolar 1 and 2 Disorders and Schizophrenia https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/family-risk-of-bipolar-1-and-2-disorders-and-schizophrenia/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/family-risk-of-bipolar-1-and-2-disorders-and-schizophrenia/#respond Wed, 08 Sep 2021 19:39:03 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=19099 Interesting study out of Taiwan that uses their fairly comprehensive population based data set to look at the relative risk of having different disorders in a family where one parent either has bipolar one or bipolar two disorder. I found this study interesting in that it suggests that bipolar one has a higher genetic loading for any kind of bipolar ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/family-risk-of-bipolar-1-and-2-disorders-and-schizophrenia/feed/ 0 19099 Shared Gene Expression in Mental Disorders https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/shared-genes-in-mental-disorders/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/shared-genes-in-mental-disorders/#respond Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:54:15 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=15025 Four distinct psychiatric disorders – autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression – have shared gene expression, according to research published online Feb. 8 in the journal Science. Researchers arrived at the study’s findings by analyzing RNA in 700 tissue samples from the brains of dead people who had autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression or alcohol abuse disorder, then comparing those samples ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/shared-genes-in-mental-disorders/feed/ 0 15025 Oxytocin in Humans https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/oxytocin-in-humans/ Mon, 08 Feb 2016 18:13:55 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=9813 The February 2016 edition of Biological Psychiatry focused on the neurohormone oxytocin and its effects on both normal and abnormal human behavior as well as its potential role in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. This is apropos given that oxytocin has been described as the “love hormone” and Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, but oxytocin is involved in ...

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