Tag: bipolar
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conference reportSome small fragments of RNA, called microRNAs, are under-expressed in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder compared with controls, according to unpublished research based on postmortem brain tissue presented this morning at the Society for Neuroscience meeting.
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder each affect about one percent of the population, and recent genetic...→
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blogEarlier this week, at a staff meeting at the foundation, we were talking, as we often do, about the relationship between genes and autism, and the tenuous, ill-understood connections between the two.
We’re a diverse bunch here, with diverse educational backgrounds — spanning all the way from director Gerry Fischbach to admin...→
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newsFor much of the twentieth century, autism was considered childhood schizophrenia.
Shared problems with language and social interaction lumped them together. Doctors thought as the children grew older, they simply became more psychotic and delusional.
But, in 1943, Leo Kanner, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, suggested that children who have an “innate...→
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