For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) were treated as distinct and unrelated psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder characterized by altered thinking and ...

About 1 in 4 people suffer from an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives. These include panic disorder with sudden, severe anxiety attacks; generalized anxiety disorder, in which sufferers ...

Psychiatric disorders can share common genetic influences, which means parts of DNA can be at the root of more than one mental condition, new research has found. The study, led by researchers at Texas ...

Many psychiatric disorders are more biologically related than previously understood, having more genetic similarities than differences, a new study shows. More research is needed to understand how ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A special fundraising event was held at the Seneca Park Zoo on Saturday to bring awareness to dystonia, a neurological disorder. Dystonia causes involuntary muscle ...

Oct. 14 (UPI) --A new award will help early career researchers who study dystonia, the Michael J. Fox Foundation announced Tuesday. The new Bachmann-Strauss Early Career Award is a two-year, $150,000 ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - Fort Wayne hosted a Dystonia Zoo Day on Saturday. The event began at 11 a.m. at the Franke #1 Pavilion near the Fort Wayne Zoo. Organizers say the event was held to bring ...

Pea-sized brains grown in a lab have for the first time revealed the unique way neurons might misfire due to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, psychiatric ailments that affect millions of people ...

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Credit: Getty Images Schizophrenia is a type of psychotic disorder that affects how a person thinks and interprets reality. Like schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder is also a type of psychotic ...