While bipolar disorder is one of the most-studied neurological disorders—the Greeks noticed symptoms of the disease as early as the first century—it’s possible that scientists have overlooked an ...

A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

Our understanding of mental illness is undergoing a major evolution, driven by recent advances in genetics. Rather than focusing solely on symptoms observed in consultation, research is ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University reported yesterday in Nature Neuroscience that they have identified two sets of genes whose decreased expression patterns in key areas of the brain appear to ...

A massive global genetics study is reshaping how we understand mental illness—and why diagnoses so often pile up. By ...

Image made with elements from Canva. Bipolar disorder is one of the most common mental illnesses—it affects an estimated 40 million people worldwide, about 2.8% of the population. Bipolar disorder can ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Recent breakthroughs in genetics research may have uncovered new genes underlying common psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia and ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, reveal today in Nature Genetics associations between bipolar disorder and rare loss-of-function variants in two genes. Bipolar disorder is ...

Experts do not know precisely what causes bipolar disorder, but if a person has a sibling or parent with this condition, they are more likely to have it. According to the National Institute of Mental ...

If you have an aversion to the bitter taste of grapefruit, cabbage, broccoli and even alcohol, you might be a "super-taster," and you're not alone – as many as one in four people have the genetic code ...

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that affects 4.4% of US adults at some point in their lives, according to the ...