Recent genome‐wide association studies of mood instability (MOOD) have found significant
positive genetic correlation with major depression (DEP) and weak correlations with other …

Background and aim Schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) have a high
comorbidity of alcohol use disorder (AUD), and both comorbid AUD and excessive alcohol …

Cognitive impairment is a core clinical feature of schizophrenia, exerting profound adverse
effects on social functioning and quality of life in a large proportion of patients with …

The thickness of the cerebral cortical sheet and its surface area are highly heritable traits
thought to have largely distinct polygenic architectures. Despite large-scale efforts, the …

To allow better diagnosis and management of psychiatric illnesses, the use of easily
accessible biomarkers are proposed. Therefore, recognition of some diseases by a set of …

Low vitamin D (vitD) levels have been consistently reported in schizophrenia (SCZ)
suggesting a role in the etiopathology. However, little is known about the role of underlying …

Neuroticism is associated with poor health, cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and
coronary artery disease (CAD). The conditional/conjunctional false discovery rate method …

With new data about different aspects of schizophrenia being continually generated, it
becomes necessary to periodically revisit exactly what we know. Along with a need to review …

The identification of rare variants associated with schizophrenia has proven challenging due
to genetic heterogeneity, which is reduced in founder populations. In samples from the …

In some patients with SZ, a vulnerable brain endothelium may be interacting with
environmental stressors, such as inflammation or hypoxia, converging into a more severe SZ …