(Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Researchers are beginning to realize that even vastly different psychiatric ...

Two landmark studies reveal the psychiatric disorders genetic link across eight to fourteen conditions through shared ...

In a global breakthrough published in Nature Genetics, researchers have successfully mapped the cells and genes that regulate ...

Genetic testing can help doctors diagnose some neurological disorders, such as Huntington’s disease. It can also provide insights into a person’s risk of future health conditions. Genetic testing ...

Psychiatric disorders often overlap and can make diagnosis difficult. Depression and anxiety, for example, can coexist and share symptoms. Schizophrenia and anorexia nervosa. Autism and attention ...

Many psychiatric disorders are more biologically related than previously understood, having more genetic similarities than differences, a new study shows. More research is needed to understand how ...

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 ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

A six-year-old boy from Sussex has become one of only about 75 people worldwide to be diagnosed with an ultra-rare genetic ...

Scientists have discovered a rare genetic condition which causes people to age at a much faster rate - and could help develop age reversal medicines. Researchers believe the findings could lead to ...

In recent years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved more than a dozen gene-editing and cell-based therapies. We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined ...