For patients with disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, mutations in the same gene could require different treatments, ...

"Neurotypical" refers to people whose brain development and function align with society's expectations of what is typical or ...

Years ago, as a neurology resident, Chinfei Chen, MD, Ph.D., cared for a 20-year-old woman who had experienced a very small stroke, affecting only the thalamus.

A seminal study has uncovered a new genetic cause of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). The discovery offers both closure and hope to potentially thousands of families worldwide who have long been ...

Emerging research has uncovered disturbing links between diabetes during pregnancy and long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes ...

Researchers have identified mutations in the non-coding gene RNU2-2 as a cause of a newly defined neurodevelopmental disorder ...

A new Mayo Clinic study finds that people with Tourette syndrome have about half as many of a specific type of brain cell ...

Mutations (blue) in U2 snRNA cause a neurodevelopmental disorder about one-fifth as common as the RNU4-2/ReNU disorder, which is linked to mutations (orange) in U4 snRNA. snRNAs are shown in black, ...

Having diabetes during pregnancy has been linked to an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders like autism ... when a woman has a type 1 or type 2 diabetes diagnosis before pregnancy.

A seminal study from researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and their collaborators in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, and Iceland has uncovered a new genetic ...