Genetics

Genetic risk scores tied to psychiatric diagnostic trajectories

Genetic risk factors for major depression (MD), bipolar disorder (BD), other nonaffective psychosis (ONAP), and schizophrenia are systematically associated with their diagnostic trajectories, according to a study published ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Big data initiative discovers new causal pathways in Alzheimer's

A new study, published on Feb. 15 in Alzheimer's & Dementia, analyzed biological samples from hundreds of individuals from a European study. Researchers looked at the biological information at various levels—genes, proteins, ...

Neuroscience

Innovative AI solution to classify epileptic seizures

A team of researchers at INESC TEC and the University of Munich, including Carnegie Mellon Portugal (CMU Portugal) Ph.D. student Tamás Karácsony, tested an innovative solution to classify seizures, the main symptom of epilepsy, ...

Genetics

RNA sequencing of amniotic fluid cells for prenatal diagnosis

A clinical research team from the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has used amniotic fluid cells obtained during 16-24 weeks of pregnancy as a novel sample type for RNA-sequencing in prenatal diagnosis to help more families ...

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