Researchers at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have identified a remarkably small but critical piece of genetic code ...

You’re not a blank slate or a prisoner of your genes. This post explores how ancestry and environment shape where—and how—you ...

Founding APS Directors Alan G. Kraut and Sarah Brookhart outline the effort to establish the NSF directorate and the power of ...

Hopkins neuroscientist Richard Huganir is close to finding a potential life-changing treatment for kids with SYNGAP1-related ...

Computational psychiatry is an interdisciplinary field of research that applies computational methods to the early detection ...

Parents' genes—even when not directly inherited by a child—may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, ...

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital has named Donald J. Bearden, PhD, ABPP-CN, its first chief of Pediatric Psychology and Behavioral Health. Dr. Bearden will be an associate professor at the ...

nurture remains a central question in psychology ... and experience interact to shape human behavior. If the symptoms of ADHD were solely based on genetics, then we would expect the heritability ...