From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release via ScienceDaily: Abused children are at high risk of anxiety and mood disorders, as traumatic experience induces lasting changes to their gene regulation. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of…
From the University of Cambridge press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists have discovered a cognitive biomarker – a biological indicator of a disease – for young adolescents who are at high risk of developing depression and…
From the McMasterUniversity press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers at McMaster University have discovered new genetic evidence about why some people are happier than others. McMaster scientists have uncovered evidence that the gene FTO – the…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release via EurekAlert!: With a mate and a nest to protect, the male threespined stickleback is a fierce fish, chasing and biting other males until they go…
From the Massachusetts General Hospital press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers using a new approach to identifying genes associated with depression have found that variants in a group of genes involved in transmission of signals by…
From the Columbia University Medical Center press release via MedicalXpress: Although schizophrenia is highly genetic in origin, the genes involved in the disorder have been difficult to identify. In the past few years, researchers have…
From the Elsevier press release via AlphaGalileo: There are a growing number of clues that immune and inflammatory mechanisms are important for the biology of schizophrenia. In a new study in Biological Psychiatry, Dr. Mar…
From the University of Toronto press release via EurekAlert!: It is time to put the nature versus nurture debate to rest and embrace growing evidence that it is the interaction between biology and environment in…
From the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) press release via Newswise: People with perfect pitch seem to possess their own inner pitch pipe, allowing them to sing a specific note without first hearing a reference…
From the Mayo Clinic press release via EurekAlert!: A gene linked to the risk of developing Alzheimer’s, heart disease and diabetes becomes less important to quality of life once people hit their 90s, a Mayo…