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.

Genetics is rarely as straightforward as a single gene driving a lone health outcome. But a new study has uncovered what ...

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

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

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

A new study in BMJ Mental Health suggests that drinking three to five cups of coffee a day may help slow early aging in ...

An estimated one in five U.S. adults live with mental illnesses, conditions that are almost universally characterized by ...

Drinking three to four cups of coffee a day is associated with longer telomeres in people with severe mental illness — ...

Pennsylvania’s newest behavioral health hospital will open its doors for patients soon. Lehigh Valley Health Network held a ...

A rare genetic finding shows that GRIN2A mutations can directly trigger psychiatric illness. Early treatment insights point to new paths for intervention. For many years, scientists believed that ...

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 ...