A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

Could one genetic mutation be sufficient to bring on complex psychopathology? For decades, dominant models of mental illness-especially schizophrenia-have focused on polygenic origins, with thousands ...

A vanishingly rare genetic glitch in a single enzyme can erase a newborn’s brain cells in a matter of weeks, leaving doctors ...

A massive global genetics study is reshaping how we understand mental illness—and why diagnoses so often pile up. By ...

A rare genetic disorder discovered by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers and their colleagues can cause brain damage from dangerously low blood sugar levels and liver damage in infants, along ...

For decades, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) has been treated as one diagnosis covering many different symptoms. But a sweeping new review of 121 studies suggests that approach may miss the real ...

The testing found a "high likelihood" that Hitler had Kallmann Syndrome and "very high" scores—in the top one percent—for a predisposition to autism, schizophrenia and biopolar disorder, program ...

— The genetic roots of a disease or disorder do not always grow into clear cut, easily diagnosed clinical features. Even if a parent and child have the same genetic marker implicated in an outcome, ...

Understanding potential joint underlying mechanisms of Schizophrenia (SZ) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (AT) is an essential area of study given their phenotypic overlap, including in social ...

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in great part influenced by genetics. Past research has identified various genes ...

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