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 ...

In a breakthrough study, scientists have discovered that a variant in one gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness – ...

Research links variations in the gene GRIN2A to a higher risk of developing schizophrenia and other forms of mental illness.

A new study from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) shows 14 psychiatric disorders share genetic roots, which can explain ...

A court-appointed psychologist recently examined Rodney Hinton Jr. and determined he suffers from a serious mental illness ...

Clinicians face growing care delays as normal life stress competes with severe psychiatric illnesses for specialist ...

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

Scientists have discovered that a single gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness—something previously thought to stem only from many genes acting together. People with certain variants of this ...

Distinct psychiatric disorders have more in common biologically than previously believed, according to the largest and most detailed analysis to date of how genes influence mental illness.

Psychiatric disorders increase risk of suicide and suicide attempts. Recent research provides evidence that medical illnesses increase such risks as well.

At a Dec. 10 hearing it was revealed that Rodney Hinton Jr. was hospitalized two years before the killing and treated with ...

Faced with a barrage of negative thoughts stirred through social media, here is what New Jersey teens are doing to improve ...