From the UCLA press release via EurekAlert!: There is little argument among experts that autism spectrum disorders (ASD), complex developmental disabilities that vary widely in their severity, are caused by… Read more »
From the Michigan State University press release: For children with autism, being born several weeks early or several weeks late tends to increase the severity of their symptoms, according to… Read more »
From the UC San Diego press release via Newswise: The first atlas of the surface of the human brain based upon genetic information has been produced by a national team… Read more »
From the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine press release: Working with genetically engineered mice and the genomes of thousands of people with schizophrenia, researchers at Johns Hopkins say they now… Read more »
From the Karolinska Institutet press release via EurekAlert!: In a new study, researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have identified epigenetic changes – known as DNA methylation –… Read more »
From the University of Zürich press release via EurekAlert!: Schizophrenia has long been known to be hereditary. However, as a melting pot of disorders with different genetic causes is concealed… Read more »
From the Mary Ann Liebert Inc., Publishers press release via AlphaGalileo: Healthy individuals who carry a gene variation linked to an increased risk of autism have structural differences in their… Read more »
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health via EurekAlert!: A personality profile marked by overly gregarious yet anxious behavior is rooted in abnormal development of a circuit hub buried deep… Read more »
From the Wiley-Blackwell press release via EurekAlert!: The pulse quickens, the heart pounds and adrenalin courses through the veins, but in stressful situations is our reaction controlled by our genes,… Read more »
From the Duke University press release: Voting behavior cannot be predicted by one or two genes as previous researchers have claimed, according to Evan Charney, a Duke University professor of… Read more »
