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The Open Session of the Joint Meeting of Advisory Councils for Collaborative Research on Addiction at NIH (CRAN) — the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse, and National Cancer Advisory Board — will take place on February 11, 2016. The Open Session of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism will take p
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Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder — one the most chronic and disabling types of mental illness. The first signs of schizophrenia, which typically emerge in young people in their teens or twenties, can be confusing and even shocking to families and friends. Hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking, unusual speech or behavior, and social withdrawal impair the ability to interact
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We live in a society where many people tend to gravitate toward “black and white thinking” and extremes. The nutrition and fitness industries are fraught with examples of extremism in many forms. Everyday a new headline pronounces a certain food as “bad and ruining our health,” while exalting another food and praising it’s “amazing benefits.” These lists of proclaimed “superfoods” and “harmful foo
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Converging evidence suggests that common complex diseases with the same or similar clinical manifestations could have different underlying genetic etiologies. While current research interests have shifted toward uncovering rare variants and structural variations predisposing to human diseases, the impact of heterogeneity in genetic studies of complex diseases has been largely overlooked. Most of t
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