Hopkins neuroscientist Richard Huganir is close to finding a potential life-changing treatment for kids with SYNGAP1-related disorders, but cuts to federal funding could delay or halt the progress ...

Silvana Santos' groundbreaking research uncovered Spoan syndrome, a rare genetic disorder affecting children in a remote ...

Obsessive compulsive disorder has many unknowns, including what causes it, why symptoms can differ so much between people, ...

For years, families in a small Brazilian town, Serrinha dos Pintos, watched their children slowly lose the ability to walk, ...

It's a slow-moving train wreck," Mike Graglia says about his 12-year-old son Tony's rare genetic disease with no cure.Caused by a tiny fluke of ...

Marley Mansour, 11, is one of fewer than 100 people in the world with a particular mutation in the NARS1 gene. She's set to ...

While the exact causes of OCD are unclear, researchers know that both genetic and environmental factors play a role in its development. OCD can run in families; studies attribute between 40% to 65% of ...

People may be paying a hidden price for living close to a golf course. Recent research has found a link between golf courses ...

Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body − and can clarify how diseases develop.

QIMR Berghofer researchers have found the genes linked to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) for the first time, after ...

For one Jamestown family, their first child was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and each parent knew they were carriers of a ...