For Lisa Hawker, getting a diagnosis of her daughter Jaydi's rare genetic condition was life-saving. Jaydi has a rare form of dwarfism which affects around 50 known people across the world. Her early ...

Despite widespread misconceptions, eating disorders aren’t a choice, they’re serious, potentially life-threatening conditions. While social and environmental factors do influence someone’s risk of ...

Genetic data show that 14 psychiatric diagnoses cluster into five families of shared risk, explaining why conditions like depression and anxiety often occur together.

Thanks to advances in imaging and diagnostic technologies, clinicians can now detect many genetic disorders in the womb, ...

Thousands of children with severe developmental disorders have benefited from more targeted treatments and support with genetic insights from the large-scale Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) ...

Researchers used genomic structural equation modeling to separate schizophrenia-specific and shared bipolar genetic risks. Schizophrenia-unique variants were linked to lower IQ, while shared variants ...

A multinational collaboration co-led by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, in collaboration with Rockefeller University, and Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, has uncovered a ...

Genetics is just one of several factors thought to influence personality disorder development. Life experiences, family dynamics, coping mechanisms, and social learning may all be contributing factors ...

On World Rare Disease Day, we take a look at Pompe disease - a rare genetic disorder caused by a deficiency of the GAA enzyme, leading to glycogen buildup in muscles. It results in progressive muscle ...