Tag: diagnosis

Links between autism and epilepsy deepen

Autism is a mental condition characterized by difficulty in communicating, forming relationships, and an altered way of perceiving the world. Epilepsy is characterized by bursts of intense electrical activity in the brain and seizures. At face value, the two conditions do not necessarily look like they are related. However, the relationship between them is now […]

Depression: 15 genomic regions linked with diagnosis

Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the United States. In 2014, there were around 15.7 million adults aged 18 or older in the U.S. who had experienced at least one major depressive episode in the last year, which represented 6.7 percent of all American adults. According to the Anxiety and Depression […]