Hundreds of thousands of people with or without schizophrenia have had their DNA analysed in two major international studies involving Danish iPSYCH. The results shed further light on the genetic roots of schizophrenia, and a picture of the fundamental causes of the serious mental disorder is emerging.

When the Danish Neuroscience Centre in Aarhus opens, it will be one of the few places in the world to bring researchers from psychiatry and all the other specialist neuroscience fields together under the same roof. This is a prerequisite for taking brain research to a world class level, according to the chair of the centre.

A major international study involving researchers from the Danish iPSYCH psychiatry project has identified new genes that increase the risk of febrile convulsions. And in contrast to previous research, the study did not find a correlation between genes associated with mental disorders and genes associated with an increased risk of febrile convulsions.

A research study from the The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research"iPSYCH shows that people with ADHD, who also have another psychiatric diagnosis, are more likely to stop taking their ADHD medicine.

Most of us have genetic variations that increase the risk of medicinal products not being effective. In order to provide a more effective treatment with fewer side effects, we need to analyse more of these genetic variations. This will provide us with more precise knowledge about how the individual patient reacts to medicinal products. A new research result from Aarhus University shows that.