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 ...

From cystic fibrosis to sickle cell disease, Down syndrome, and Klinefelter syndrome, these are some examples of genetic illnesses you should be aware of. You should also know that breast cancer, ...

To understand differences in neural activity between FXS and non-FXS individuals when responding to different frequencies, Thorpe said, researchers played an auditory “chirp,” or sound stimulus, and ...

Two Princeton University studies are opening important new windows into understanding an untreatable group of common genetic disorders known as RASopathies that are characterized by distinct facial ...

New research bolsters the idea that the risk for psychiatric and developmental disorders isn’t specific to particular conditions — and that could mean new opportunities to treat mental illnesses that ...

An analysis of 2.2 million people reveals both shared and substance-specific genetic pathways for addiction risk, showing ...

* Five shared genetic factors explain most inherited risk across 14 psychiatric disorders * Disorders within the same genetic group show minimal genetic differences * Findings //support biology-based ...

An insightful mini-review published in Genomic Psychiatry synthesizes the rapidly expanding landscape of molecular genetic research on common epilepsies, assembling evidence from genome-wide ...

Gaucher disease, a rare genetic disorder, often goes undiagnosed due to symptoms mimicking common ailments. Affecting the spleen, liver, and bones, it's also linked to an increased risk of Parkinson's ...