Research links variations in the gene GRIN2A to a higher risk of developing schizophrenia and other forms of mental illness.

Genetics is rarely as straightforward as a single gene driving a lone health outcome. But a new study has uncovered what ...

GRIN2A gene mutations emerge as single-gene cause of childhood schizophrenia, anxiety, and mood disorders, potentially ...

In a breakthrough study, scientists have discovered that a variant in one gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness – ...

Schizophrenia is considered the most severe of the mental illnesses, said Barbara Norman, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at Altru Health System's outpatient psychiatry department, Grand ...

For decades, psychiatrists have told patients that conditions like schizophrenia and severe depression arise from a tangled ...

A young woman with nervous breakdown expressions on background. [Courtesy/iStock] Schizophrenia is one of the most misunderstood mental health disorders in our communities. Often dismissed as ...

Dr. Maxine Okafor and Sheronda Victorian discuss schizophrenia and the disparities within care: African Americans are diagnosed at four times the rate of whites, per Brandeis University. Many studies ...

Focusing on who ‘counts’ as mentally ill will ultimately send us down the wrong path,” Miranda Wolpert, director of mental ...

The high rates of depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and suicide cases in Indonesia make the need for mental health services ...

A new Grattan Institute report shows how Australia can build a national system of psychosocial supports within five years ...

Schizophrenia is one of the most misunderstood mental health disorders in our communities. Often dismissed as witchcraft or demonic possession, the condition silently affects hundreds of thousands of ...