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

An international collective of researchers is delivering new insights into why having multiple psychiatric disorders is the ...

Researchers from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) report that most genetic influences on mental illness are shared across diagnostic categories, revealing a more interconnected biological ...

A global research team co-led by VCU expert Kenneth Kendler has produced the most comprehensive genetic map so far, identifying five families of disorders that show a high degree of overlap. An intern ...

Using lab-grown brain tissue, researchers uncovered complex patterns of neural signaling that differ subtly between healthy ...

Researchers recently discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis. A study published this year pinpointed specific variants among those shared genes and ...

Dementia increases sharply with the number of comorbid psychiatric disorders, with mood and anxiety disorders posing the greatest risk, new research showed. Compared to individuals with a single ...