People with a rare genetic disorder that damages the amygdala are helping neuroscientists rethink how the brain shapes fear, ...

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 ...

An international team led by University of Manchester scientists has created the most detailed picture yet of how genetic differences shape the way the human eye works. The breakthrough could help ...

Significant genetic correlations were found between pediatric neuropsychiatric conditions and various ocular disorders.

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 ...

A University of Texas at Austin-led team has reconstructed the most detailed map to date of the molecular machines that ...

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 ...

Medical experts detail the little-known condition that triggers premature ageing symptoms from the teenage years, often ...

"It's a slow-moving train wreck," Mike Graglia says about his 12-year-old son Tony's rare genetic disease with no cure. Caused by a tiny fluke of nature—a mutation in a gene known as a SYNGAP1—the non ...

A melanoma cell can dodge a targeted drug in dozens of different ways, each driven by a different genetic mutation. But what ...

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, ...