{"id":205965,"date":"2025-02-09T10:04:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T16:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/several-psychiatric-disorders-share-the-same-root-cause-study-reveals"},"modified":"2025-02-09T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T16:04:48","slug":"several-psychiatric-disorders-share-the-same-root-cause-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/several-psychiatric-disorders-share-the-same-root-cause-study-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Several Psychiatric Disorders Share The Same Root Cause, Study Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/several-psychiatric-disorders-share-the-same-root-cause-study-reveals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers recently discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis.<\/p>\n<p>A new study has now honed in on some of those shared genetic variants to understand their properties. They found many are active for longer during brain development and potentially impact multiple stages, suggesting they could be new targets to treat multiple conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proteins produced by these genes are also highly connected to other proteins,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/eight-psychiatric-disorders-share-the-same-genetic-causes-study-says\/\">explains<\/a> University of North Carolina geneticist Hyejung Won. \u201cChanges to these proteins in particular could ripple through the network, potentially causing widespread effects on the brain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers recently discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis. A new study has now honed in on some of those shared genetic variants to understand their properties. They found many are active for longer during brain development and potentially impact multiple stages, suggesting they could be new targets to treat multiple [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}