Norrie disease is an extremely rare, inherited genetic disorder that causes vision loss and was first described in Denmark in 1927. The exact incidence of Norrie disease in the population is unknown, ...
Researchers from the Mitochondrial Medicine Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have better characterized a ...
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a debilitating genetic condition that’s usually fatal by a few years of age. But an ...
Explore new findings on bipolar disorder, from genetics to sleep patterns, plus emerging treatments and a neuroscientist’s ...
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...
New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.
In 2019 an international team of researchers identified 109 genes that were associated in different combinations with eight different psychiatric disorders, including autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, ...
Neurogeneticists have discovered a novel genetic mutation and associated buildup of toxic proteins in the brain -- a type of buildup distinct from amyloid or tau, proteins that have long been the ...