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

Amid the mental health positive catchphrases, deep-rooted prejudice still exists toward people living with serious mental health conditions.

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

German scientists have identified rare GRIN2A gene variants that may directly cause early-onset mental illness, sometimes ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Light is a professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine and director of Mental Health Research and the Mental Illness, Research, Education and Clinical Center at the VA San Diego ...

There’s bad news for carboholics. A growing body of research suggests that eating bread, pasta and other grain products may trigger or worsen a wide range of psychological symptoms, including ...

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