RSS 1.0Psychiatry (Theses and Dissertations)
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The Contribution of Additional Genetic Variation to CNV Carrier Cognitive and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Psychiatry, 2023)Many copy number variants (CNV) are strongly associated with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) such as autism, intellectual disability/developmental delay (ID/DD) and schizophrenia. CNVs are large genomic deletions or ... -
Coercion and Involuntary Care: A Study of Involuntary and Voluntary Psychiatry Inpatients in Dublin
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Psychiatry, 2023)Involuntary care is a feature of mental health services around the world. In addition to involuntary admission and treatment, specific coercive or restrictive practices including seclusion and physical restraint occur in ... -
Neuroimaging to Assess Neonatal Brain Development and Brain Injury in Neonatal Encephalopathy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Psychiatry, 2023)Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) is a clinical syndrome describing perinatal brain injury and neurological dysfunction in the term-born infant. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used tool in the assessment of NE, ... -
Inflammatory markers of antipsychotic weight gain and cardiometabolic dysfunction in youth mental health disorders
Second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are used in children and adolescents to treat psychotic symptoms in Early Onset Psychosis (EOP) and irritability and behaviours that challenge in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ... -
Developing pedigree-based strategies to analyse whole genome sequencing data for complex disorders: learning from schizophrenia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Psychiatry, 2023)Complex genetic disorders are impacted by a range of DNA variation. Next generation sequencing (NGS) allows for the direct examination of this variation, but large sample numbers are required to identify rare variants in ...
