Psychiatric disorders can share common genetic influences, which means parts of DNA can be at the root of more than one mental condition, new research has found. The study, led by researchers at Texas ...

A landmark Nature study of 6 million people found schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share up to 70% of genetic risk The post ...

Many common mental health disorders, including depression and anxiety, are associated with a tendency to internalize problems or, in other words, to direct feelings inwards instead of expressing them ...

Errors in a gene known to cause a serious neurodevelopmental condition in infants are also linked to the development of Parkinson's disease in adolescence and adulthood, according to new research. The ...

Researchers have uncovered shared genetic pathways that link multiple psychiatric disorders. These new findings have the potential to change the way psychiatric disorders are diagnosed and treated, ...

A massive global genetics study is reshaping how we understand mental illness—and why diagnoses so often pile up. By analyzing genetic data from more than six million people, researchers uncovered ...

Sensing that breast cancer ran in certain families, the geneticist Mary-Claire King and a team of researchers at UC Berkeley ...

A toddler's activity levels are influenced by genetic differences, with some of the same genetic markers also linked to Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to new research ...

A Pike County toddler is the first child in the U.S. diagnosed with Rajab syndrome - a rare lung disease with only 10 known ...

Tripura Chief Minister, Manik Saha, has directed officials to extend all possible assistance for the advanced treatment of a ...