Genetics News

Alternative Treatment Kava Shown to Reduce Anxiety

May 19th, 2013
Alternative Treatment Kava Shown to Reduce Anxiety New research has shown that kava, a medicinal South Pacific plant, reduces the symptoms of anxiety and may be used as a successful alternative treatment ...

Schizophrenia Risk Linked to Declining IQ

May 18th, 2013
Schizophrenia Risk Linked to Declining IQA long-term study provides evidence that the genetic risk for schizophrenia is associated with lower IQ among people who do not develop this disorder. Schizophrenia is a rare but ...

Flu While Pregnant May Quadruple a Child’s Risk of Bipolar

May 15th, 2013
Flu While Pregnant May Quadruple a Child’s Risk of BipolarA new study funded by the National Institutes of Health discovers a pregnant mothers' exposure to the flu may have extreme mental health ...

New Studies Support Environmental Link to Autism

May 5th, 2013
New Studies Support Environmental Link to AutismSeveral new studies presented at the International Society for Autism Research annual conference back up the notion that environmental factors before birth may play an important role ...

Meditation Produces Opposite Effect of ‘Fight or Flight’

May 4th, 2013
Meditation Produces Opposite Effect of 'Fight or Flight' A new study reveals that practitioners of meditation experience changes in gene expression that are the exact opposite of what occurs during the "flight ...

Study Finds Learning Disabilities Often Bundled, Fairly Common

April 29th, 2013
Study Finds Learning Disabilities Often Bundled, Fairly Common  A new University of Melbourne study suggests that up to 10 per cent of the population is affected by specific ...

How Do Bipolar Drugs Work?

April 12th, 2013
How Do Bipolar Drugs Work? Although modern pharmacology has developed formulas to aid people with mental illness, the method by which the drugs actually work is often ...

Brain Scans May Reveal Early Signs of Schizophrenia

April 6th, 2013
Brain Scans May Reveal Early Signs of SchizophreniaAs much as a decade before most schizophrenia patients begin showing obvious symptoms, brain scans may be able to detect signs of the disease, according ...

‘Memory Molecule’ ID’d in Fruit Fly Study

April 1st, 2013
'Memory Molecule' ID'd in Fruit Fly StudyResearchers studying fruit flies report identifying a key molecule that triggers the chemical processes of memory formation. The finding, published in the journal Frontiers in Neural Circuits, ...

Teen Smoking Addiction Tied to Genes

March 30th, 2013
Teen Smoking Addiction Tied to GenesGenetics may help reveal why some teens become addicted so quickly to smoking cigarettes, according to new research. For the study, researchers analyzed ...