This is the second volume of our previous collection, linked here. Mental health disorders and physical diseases often co-occur, and growing evidence ...

Psychiatric disorders can share common genetic influences, which means parts of DNA can be at the root of more than one mental condition, new research has found. The study, led by researchers at Texas ...

Rare genetic disorders affect more than 300 million people worldwide, with children making up 70% of those impacted, according to EURORDIS. These conditions often go undiagnosed for years due to ...

Mapping the genetic links between 14 psychiatric disorders may pave the way for future mental health treatments.

Despite modern high-throughput sequencing, the genetic cause of most rare movement disorders remains unclear. A research team ...

Scientists have long recognised that psychiatric diseases overlap with one another. Many people are diagnosed with many illnesses during their lives, and symptoms from different diagnostic categories ...

"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 ...