Childhood psychosis risk appears to increase significantly among carriers of this gene variant. In A Nutshell First ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Rodney Hinton Jr. killed Deputy Larry Henderson by deliberately driving into him on May 2, prosecutors say ...

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 ...

Rana Coniglio, an Arizona-based therapist who works primarily with Gen Z clients, said they often arrive at her practice ...

The Delhi High Court recently observed that mental illness cannot be stigmatised, adding that behaviour stemming from mental ...