In the case of Newtown's Lanza, medical experts had diagnosed him with various psychiatric disorders, but they had largely been untreated.
As Grant Morrison, a well-known comic author, wrote recently, "The rest of Batman's rogues' gallery personified various psychiatric disorders to great effect: Two-Face was schizophrenia".
Still, of all the various psychiatric disorders, fear and anxiety are probably the most tractable scientifically because they are based on alterations normal brain functions that are beginning to be well understood.
Large multisite research programs like the Brain Activity Map, along with the latest gene-sequencing technology, can help identify the circuits and genes that are linked to various psychiatric disorders and find promising new targets for drugs.
A lot of patients reported smoking as self-medication, and there was an attitude among some that these people "had enough on their plates", without taking away their comforting cigarettes, particularly if there may be some perceived benefit of nicotine in various psychiatric disorders.
Various psychiatric disorders such as major depression are associated with abnormalities in emotional processing.
Alongside having marked neurobehavioral effects, IL-2 has been suggested to impact on various psychiatric disorders.
These studies reported a high incidence of serum folate deficiency in patients with various psychiatric disorders.
Some earlier experiments on the association between migraine and various psychiatric disorders investigated their relationship to suicidal thoughts and actions.
These findings might have important implications in the understanding of mechanisms underlying mirror neuron dysfunction in various psychiatric disorders.
For that purpose, we performed a retrospective cohort study on patients with various psychiatric disorders admitted in our ICU from 2000 to 2013.
