There is a large degree of overlap between the genetic causes of autism and ADHD. Now, researchers from Aarhus University have found gene variants, which increase the risk of developing only one of the diagnoses and not the other.

New research results from iPSYCH show that the underlying genetics of ADHD vary depending on how old you are when you are diagnosed. If you are diagnosed as a child, there is a higher genetic overlap with autism than if you are diagnosed as an adult. An adult diagnosis on the other hand has a higher genetic overlap with the genetics of depression.

Increased attention is needed to the complications experienced by many patients who survive cardiac arrest in the years after discharge, says researcher behind study.

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.