A new AI model called popEVE can predict how likely each variant in a patient’s genome is to cause disease. The team is ...

A rare genetic finding shows that GRIN2A mutations can directly trigger psychiatric illness. Early treatment insights point ...

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 ...

For decades, psychiatrists have told patients that conditions like schizophrenia and severe depression arise from a tangled ...

Credit: Getty Images Some rare psychological disorders may occur so infrequently that most mental health professionals might never encounter them. Approximately 1 of every 5 adults in the United ...

"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 ...

Developmental prosopagnosia, commonly known as face blindness, affects every aspect of daily life, leaving many patients unable to pick out even their closest relatives in ordinary encounters, new ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

It is probably safe to say that progressive supranuclear palsy is not a household name. Unlike Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, conditions that have become part of the common vocabulary, progressive ...

Nearly half of Americans are affected by cardiovascular disease, while about one in four lives with a mental health condition ...

Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for many diseases.