A genetic breakthrough reveals why mental health conditions often occur together. New research identifies five disorder ...

Huntington’s disease is a rare inherited neurological disorder that progressively affects movement, cognition and mental ...

Researchers have discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis. A study published in ...

A multinational collaboration co-led by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, in collaboration with Rockefeller University, and Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, has uncovered a ...

Over the next two years, the planned funding will be allocated to projects that have received some FDA feedback as well as emerging efforts.

Researchers from across China have discovered that schizophrenia (SCZ), bipolar disorder (BD) and major depressive disorder, all of which are serious mental illnesses, share about 70 percent common ...

Despite widespread misconceptions, eating disorders aren't a choice, they're serious, potentially life-threatening conditions. While social and environmental factors do influence someone's risk of ...

Researchers identified the earliest case of a genetic disease with the help of DNA: ...

AMD is one of the rarest documented genetic disorders. Only around 10 million people in the world carry the altered NPR2 gene ...

Is Obesity Genetic or Environmental? Get All the Details This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD. Key ...

From dwarfism to overgrowth, scientists unravel the complex genetic blueprint that determines how tall—or short—we become. Review: The genetic basis of human height. Image Credit: XiXinXing / ...