A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...

A massive global genetics study is reshaping how we understand mental illness—and why diagnoses so often pile up. By analyzing genetic data from more than six million people, researchers uncovered ...

An international collective of researchers is delivering new insights into why having multiple psychiatric disorders is the norm rather than the exception. In a study published today in the journal ...

Psychiatric disorders, such as bipolar disorder (BD), major depressive disorder (MDD), schizophrenia and anxiety disorders, adversely affect the daily functioning and well-being of millions of people ...

Distinct psychiatric disorders have more in common biologically than previously believed, according to the largest and most detailed analysis to date of how genes influence mental illness. The study, ...

Scientists have long recognised that psychiatric diseases overlap with one another. Many people are diagnosed with many illnesses during their lives, and symptoms from different diagnostic categories ...

Psychiatry has treated depression as depression, schizophrenia as schizophrenia, and ADHD as ADHD – distinct conditions requiring distinct diagnoses, distinct medications, and distinct treatment ...