A resident of Baltimore, Maryland, Melissa Burch Harton previously worked at Maryland Nonprofits and Paul’s Place, where she served underprivileged populations. Melissa Burch Harton studied clinical psychology at Loyola University in Maryland, where she subsequently earned a master's degree in the field.
New research discoveries are consistently emerging in the field of clinical psychology. Recently, a study conducted by scientists at Queensland University and Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam found that specific genes are involved in the development of five psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD, major depression, and autism spectrum disorder.
During the study, the genes of more than 400,000 participants were analyzed to determine their relationship with the onset of the five psychiatric disorders. Researchers found that there is a common set of genes that increases the risk of having any of these five psychiatric disorders. They also concluded that genes highly prevalent in the brain were involved with the different disorders due to the way cells communicate with one another in this part of the body. The study’s findings are important since they may help researchers develop new pharmaceutical drugs that could affect the shared pathways involved with the disorders.
New research discoveries are consistently emerging in the field of clinical psychology. Recently, a study conducted by scientists at Queensland University and Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam found that specific genes are involved in the development of five psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD, major depression, and autism spectrum disorder.
During the study, the genes of more than 400,000 participants were analyzed to determine their relationship with the onset of the five psychiatric disorders. Researchers found that there is a common set of genes that increases the risk of having any of these five psychiatric disorders. They also concluded that genes highly prevalent in the brain were involved with the different disorders due to the way cells communicate with one another in this part of the body. The study’s findings are important since they may help researchers develop new pharmaceutical drugs that could affect the shared pathways involved with the disorders.
