I’ve lived with anxiety disorders for as long as I can remember. My sister has struggled with them too. Looking at our family history, things start to feel interconnected. My mother has dementia, her ...

Ancestry and lifestyle choices of parents may affect the rate and type of new genetic changes that arise in their children, new research has found. The study sheds light on factors that influence the ...

Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research team found genetic associations between children's ...

While the kids with higher melatonin-related genetic risk had more delayed sleep onset (the time it takes to fall asleep), the analysis showed that this didn’t explain the link between genetics and ...

Researchers at Princeton University and the Simons Foundation have identified four clinically and biologically distinct subtypes of autism, marking a transformative step in understanding the condition ...

The blueprint of who we are begins with the genes passed down from our parents. While these inherited traits give us our eye color and height, they can also contain instructions that increase our risk ...

Learning that your child has neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) comes with a range of emotions and practical concerns. While many people diagnosed with NF1 will have a normal life expectancy, the ...

This post is the third in the series “Connecting Biology to Behavior: Inside the ADHD Brain.” Read the first post to learn about the role of dopamine in ADHD behaviors and the second post to learn ...

Dr. Matt Goldstein and Myra Sack lost their daughter, Havi, to Tay-Sachs disease in 2021. Tay-Sachs is a rare, inherited genetic disease primarily affecting infants and young children. There is no ...