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Most Common Psychiatric Disorders Share Genetic Roots

February 28, 2013

http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/28/most-common-psychiatric-disorders-share-genetic-roots/

 

Source - TIME Magazine


Diverse mental illnesses may actually represent variations on a common theme rather than separate disorders. “This was a really well done study and the best yet at trying to address the question of whether there might be common processes underlying what we have long though to be very different psychiatric conditions,” says Dr. Bryan King of Seattle Children’s.

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