{"id":75852,"date":"2018-02-09T09:03:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T17:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/major-psychiatric-disorders-have-more-in-common-than-we-thought-study-finds"},"modified":"2018-02-09T09:03:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T17:03:23","slug":"major-psychiatric-disorders-have-more-in-common-than-we-thought-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/major-psychiatric-disorders-have-more-in-common-than-we-thought-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Major Psychiatric Disorders Have More In Common Than We Thought, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/major-psychiatric-disorders-have-more-in-common-than-we-thought-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Major psychiatric disorders like autism, schizophrenia and bipolar appear to have more in common than we thought they did. A new study finds that they have important similarities at a molecular level.<\/p>\n<p>And understanding the molecular basis of major disorders such as autism, schizophrenia and bipolar is hopeful, because it could help in developing better treatments for them.<\/p>\n<p>These psychiatric disorders are diagnosed by how a patient behaves. There are no clear signs on a brain \u201cthat you can see with your eyes or most microscopic techniques,\u201d says Dan Geschwind, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.healthsciences.ucla.edu\/institution\/personnel?personnel_id=8903\">a professor of neurogenetics at UCLA<\/a>. His team\u2019s findings <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/359\/6376\/693\">were published in Science<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2018\/02\/08\/584330475\/major-psychiatric-disorders-have-more-in-common-than-we-thought-study-finds\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2018\/02\/08\/584330475...tudy-finds<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major psychiatric disorders like autism, schizophrenia and bipolar appear to have more in common than we thought they did. A new study finds that they have important similarities at a molecular level. And understanding the molecular basis of major disorders such as autism, schizophrenia and bipolar is hopeful, because it could help in developing better [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75852","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=75852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}