Nature

Substance use disorders: a call for a staging paradigm

The holy grail in medicine for the staging of clinical disorders has revolved around identifying biomarkers. Though morbidity resulting from chronic substance use has been inferred with certain ...
Healthline

Addiction vs. Substance Use Disorder

Addiction is an umbrella term that reflects qualities of substance use disorder, characterized by an inability to stop using a substance despite harmful consequences. However, addiction is not a ...
Nature

The moderation of genetic risk for ten major psychiatric and substance use disorders by the genetic aptitude for educational attainment

GAEA is a complex construct that can likely be broken down into several sub-components. In addition to the expected positive correlation with intelligence, high levels of GAEA are associated with ...
News Medical

New research on two million people quantifies how genetic risks overlap across diagnoses

A sweeping new peer-reviewed study published in Genomic Psychiatry has introduced a concept that could reshape how psychiatrists and geneticists think about mental illness: genetic specificity. Led by ...
EurekAlert!

Genetic risk for mental illness is far less disorder-specific than clinicians have assumed, massive Swedish study reveals

RICHMOND, Virginia, UNITED STATES, 3 March 2026 -- A sweeping new peer-reviewed study published in Genomic Psychiatry has introduced a concept that could reshape how psychiatrists and geneticists ...