Sökning: "mental disturbance"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade orden mental disturbance.
1. Mental Health and Neurobehavioral Function in Young Adult Offspring of Women with a History of Psychosis and Control Offspring
Sammanfattning : Schizophrenia is now generally considered to be a brain disease resulting from disturbed neurodevelopment, mediated by genetic and/or adverse events in utero and/or in early childhood. This process manifests itself in schizophrenia in young adulthood, when the brain completes its maturation. LÄS MER
2. Stress, sleep disturbance, and related ill-health : from prevalence and risk-factors to indicated interventions
Sammanfattning : With focus on stress-related ill-health and insomnia/sleep disturbance, the overall aim of this thesis was to determine severity and prevalence, risk factors and effectiveness of low-intensity group sessions. This was accomplished by taking epidemiological and quasi-experimental approaches. LÄS MER
3. The impact of railway vibration and noise on sleep
Sammanfattning : Sleep is a vital component of good health, and sleep loss is associated with impaired cognition, decreased psychomotor performance, cardiovascular disease, adverse effects on endocrine and metabolic function, negative mood, impaired memory, and more. A growing burden of freight transportation on global railway networks will likely lead to an increase in nocturnal vibration and noise at nearby dwellings. LÄS MER
4. Sjögren-Larsson syndrome in Sweden : an epidemiological, genetic, clinical and biochemical study
Sammanfattning : The Sjögren-Larsson syndrome (SLS) is a genetically determined syndrome with autosomal recessive inheritance originally and comprehensively described from Sweden. It is characterized by the three cardinal signs congenital ichthyosis, spastic di- or tetraplegia and mental retardation. LÄS MER
5. Sleep and cognition in old age: Birth cohort differences, dementia, and biomarkers of Alzheimer´s disease
Sammanfattning : The focus for this thesis is on two major determinants of health and wellbeing in older people, namely subjective sleep disturbance and cognition. Data were drawn from the H70 Birth Cohort Studies, comprising representative samples of older people living in Gothenburg, Sweden. LÄS MER