(whoismargot/pixabay) Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a severe, clinical type of depression, a more broadly defined mood ...

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Abraham Lincoln, for one, may have had the syndrome—and are at very high risk of a kind of fatal rupture in the heart.

A little-known, rarely described condition, pseudologia fantastica, could be more prevalent and influential than anyone ...

Objectives Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) relies on immunomodulatory drugs that can compromise immunity, inducing secondary immunodeficiency (SID). However, features of SID, such as ...

Introduction Psychotic disorders account for significant morbidity and healthcare costs and yet their pathophysiology remains poorly understood. The National Institute for Health and Care Research ...

Studies of genetics conducted in yeast cells, human neurons, mice or other model systems often reveal networks of genes that could contribute to complex diseases, such as breast cancer, type 2 ...

Recent work in genomic psychiatry suggests that similar neurodevelopmental and psychiatric phenotypes may arise from partly distinct mechanisms, and conversely, that shared genomic liabilities may ...

aSchool of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong bGerald Choa Neuroscience Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong cDepartment of ...

Genome-wide association studies identify genetic overlap among disorders, providing evidence that their distinctions may be misleading One major difference between psychiatric disorders and purely ...

Although mental disorders have multifactorial causes, genetics can explain some of them, yet this field remains largely unexplored in terms of guiding diagnoses and treatments. In the largest study of ...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of the most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders. The co-occurrence of mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression ...