An international collective of researchers is delivering new insights into why having multiple psychiatric disorders is the norm rather than the exception. In a study published today in the journal ...

A major analysis suggests Phelan-McDermid syndrome, a genetic disorder closely linked to autism, may affect about 1 in 7,300 ...

Nonsense mutations are estimated to cause about 11 percent of inherited genetic disorders. Those disorders number in the ...

Emerging evidence implicates mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and neuroinflammation as key interrelated mechanisms underlying ASD pathophysiology. These molecular disturbances contribute ...

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, ...

Abdel Abdellaoui is in the Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Read the paper: Mapping the genetic landscape ...

The discovery of two new genetic disorders comes from a study delivered through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Center (BRC) and The ...

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...

“Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.”—James D. Watson A recent ...

Thousands of children with severe developmental disorders have benefited from more targeted treatments and support with genetic insights from the large-scale Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) ...

Inherited eye diseases long believed to be inevitable for those with a certain mutated gene actually occur in just a minority of those cases, according to a recent study. Researchers made the ...

Eating disorders are not caused by genetics alone, but genes can play a significant role in making someone more vulnerable to developing one. Researchers do not understand the exact cause of eating ...