Psychiatric in sentence

155 examples of Psychiatric in a sentence

They need psychiatric help.

He continued to work as a psychiatric nurse.

She was taken away by authorities and placed in a psychiatric hospital, and so for the next several years Will lived with his older brother, until he committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart.

I've spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals.

That's not to say that I've remained clear of all psychiatric struggles.

As a young woman, I was in a psychiatric hospital on three different occasions for lengthy periods.

During the next year, I would spend five months in a psychiatric hospital.

In fact, until very recently, and I'm sure some people still hold it as a view, that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe.

I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed with that view.

It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Lack of stimulation often leads to self-stimulating behaviors like hand-flapping, rocking back and forth, or aggression, and in some institutions, psychiatric drugs are used to control the behavior of these children, whilst in others, children are tied up to prevent them from harming themselves or others.

As we heard from Dr. Insel this morning, psychiatric disorders like autism, depression and schizophrenia take a terrible toll on human suffering.

Now, part of the reason for this is that we have an oversimplified and increasingly outmoded view of the biological basis of psychiatric disorders.

These drugs have so many side effects because using them to treat a complex psychiatric disorder is a bit like trying to change your engine oil by opening a can and pouring it all over the engine block.

Now, an emerging view that you also heard about from Dr. Insel this morning, is that psychiatric disorders are actually disturbances of neural circuits that mediate emotion, mood and affect.

But we know much less about the circuit basis of psychiatric disorders because of the overwhelming dominance of this chemical imbalance hypothesis.

Now, it's not that chemicals are not important in psychiatric disorders.

So if we ever really want to understand the biological basis of psychiatric disorders, we need to pinpoint these locations in the brain where these chemicals act.

So slowly I began to realize that what started out as a rather playful attempt to try to annoy fruit flies might actually have some relevance to a human psychiatric disorder.

So these results make me and my colleagues more convinced than ever that the brain is not a bag of chemical soup, and it's a mistake to try to treat complex psychiatric disorders just by changing the flavor of the soup.

What we need to do is to use our ingenuity and our scientific knowledge to try to design a new generation of treatments that are targeted to specific neurons and specific regions of the brain that are affected in particular psychiatric disorders.

But they thought that, if you had a neurologic or psychiatric disease, it must be because you are possessed by an evil spirit.

So if you are possessed by an evil spirit causing neurologic or psychiatric problems, then the way to treat this is, of course, to make a hole in your skull and let the evil spirit escape.

There were some sites where one percent of all the skulls have these holes, and so you can see that neurologic and psychiatric disease is quite common, and it was also quite common about 7,000 years ago.

It's a lovely example of the sort of thing we do: take a bizarre, seemingly incomprehensible, neural psychiatric syndrome and say that the standard Freudian view is wrong, that, in fact, you can come up with a precise explanation in terms of the known neural anatomy of the brain.

In addition to sensory deprivation, recreational and therapeutic drugs, conditions like epilepsy and narcolepsy, and psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, are a few of the many known causes of hallucinations, and we’re still finding new ones.

So, with the advice of my physician, I had myself admitted to the acute care psychiatric unit of our university hospital.

It was founded in the 18th century, the largest psychiatric hospital in the state of Connecticut, other than the huge public hospitals that existed at that time.

It is as much a psychiatric disease as being gay and lesbian, and that went out the window in 1973, and the whole world changed.

However, for over 200 years, this prevention was not believed to extend to psychiatric diseases.

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