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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

For the past six years, former New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice John Broderick has traveled the state sharing the story of his son's mental illness and his family's failure to get him the ...

A new poll by the National Alliance on Mental Illness finds that one in five Americans reports their mental health is poor. And a majority think lawmakers are doing too little, spending too little to ...

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