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EPIGENETIC-GENETIC-MENTAL HEALTH CASCADE BASED PERSONALISED PREVENTION OF NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE IN ADOLESCENTS DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM (ETHEREAL)

Descripción del proyecto

Prevención personalizada de los trastornos mentales

El trastorno del espectro autista (TEA) es una afección neurológica que afecta a la forma en que las personas interactúan con los demás, se comunican, aprenden y se comportan. Las personas con TEA son más propensas a desarrollar trastornos mentales y otras enfermedades no transmisibles, por lo que es necesario desarrollar tratamientos basados en pruebas. Para evitar los trastornos mentales en personas con TEA, el equipo del proyecto financiado con fondos europeos ETHEREAL propone estudiar los procesos biológicos de forma individual. El consorcio desarrollará un método de modelización cuantitativa que integre datos epigenéticos, genéticos y metabólicos. Este servicio personalizado ofrecerá orientación basada en pruebas para controlar los factores ambientales que pueden repercutir en la salud mental de las personas con TEA.

Objetivo

"Five Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and Mental Health Disorders (MHD) account for 86% deaths and 77% disease burden in the WHO Europe region. Of these five NCDs, MHD is unique as it has a complex bi-directional relationship with the other four major NCDs, meaning that, on one hand, it could be the initiator of the other NCDs, or other NCDs could lead to MHD which, in turn, can further aggravate the primary NCD leading to a vicious circle. Recent research identified MHD as the highest ranked NCD in adolescent population. A specific group in this population that is 3 - 6 times more vulnerable for developing MHD and subsequent NCD is the adolescents diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).
There is no Evidence Based Intervention (EBI) for preventing MHD in an ASD adolescent since 1) the major risk factors are in-grained in their biological process and 2) they present with multiple MHD comorbidity. Personalisation is the key to prevent their already vulnerable mental states making transition to an MHD - ""which"" EBI is appropriate for ""which"" ASD adolescent and ""how"" to choose it - an unsolved question. Because of their neurobiological characteristics, personalisation must be done at biological level.
Recent research showed how the environmental factors can alter gene expressions that leads to an MHD through Epigenetic-Genetic/metabolomic-Mental health (EGM) process. Using quantitative modelling of this process, ETHREAL will develop a personalised, flexible, single service delivery model that will empower an ASD adolescent to self-control their environmental factors while seamlessly accessing the community care services to prevent their mental health making transition to an MHD - a unique solution for sustainable prevention of MHD and subsequent NCDs in this population. Without loss of generality, the proposed solution could be adapted to prevent MHD in wider adolescent population."

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

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Coordinador

ORTHOKEY ITALIA SRL
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 492 923,60
Dirección
PIAZZA NAZIONI UNITE 15
54033 Carrara Ms
Italia

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Pyme

Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.

Región
Centro (IT) Toscana Massa-Carrara
Tipo de actividad
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 685 423,60

Participantes (4)

Socios (2)