Medical Xpress September 27, 2022
QIMR Berghofer scientists are challenging the research and funding community to develop better treatments for debilitating mental health conditions by tapping the many extraordinary genetic discoveries made over the last decade to deliver a new era of precision psychiatry.
Scientists have discovered hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of genes linked to the full range of mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, anorexia nervosa, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and ADHD. This has been made possible thanks to new genetic data sets of DNA donated by millions of people, and advancements in supercomputing technology.
The head of QIMR Berghofer’s Translational Neurogenomics Laboratory, Professor Eske Derks, said it is now time to progress this research to the next stage.
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