Researchers have taken an important step toward understanding the relationship between two of the most serious psychiatric disorders, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. For years, they have known…
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People with anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder, severely restrict the amount of food they eat. They may see themselves as overweight even after they have become dangerously underweight, but what…
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The genetic factors contributing to autism are notoriously hard to understand. One reason is that only a fraction of the total set of DNA mutations thought likely to play a role in the illness have…
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Researchers studying gene expression in cerebral cortex tissue sampled from postmortem brains have identified patterns of shared and distinct gene expression patterns in autism, schizophrenia,…
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According to new research reported March 15 in the journal Scientific Reports, certain patterns of gene activity in the brains of men with alcoholism more closely resemble the activity patterns in…
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