A comprehensive genetic investigation led by Dr. Feng Liu at Tianjin Medical University General Hospital has uncovered ...

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 ...

Our understanding of mental illness is undergoing a major evolution, driven by recent advances in genetics. Rather than ...

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

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

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 ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

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 ...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- Sam and Andy Conrad are your typical adolescents. Sam, 12, likes the computer and anything that allows him to ``socialize'' with friends. Andy, 15, is active in sports, playing ...