Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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Panic disorders: The role of genetics and epigenetics

Eun Jeong Kim, Yong‐Ku Kim
AIMS Genetics Summary & key facts 2018 19 citations

This paper reviews studies of genes and epigenetics in panic disorder. Family, twin, and adoption studies show panic disorder often runs in families. Researchers have found some candidate genes (for example NPY, ADORA2A, COMT, IKBKE), but panic disorder is not a single-gene disease. Large genome-wide studies did not find any…

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Schizophrenia research and treatment
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