New research is challenging assumptions about what determines our personality — and showing that you can change it.

Genetic studies of serious mental illness (SMI, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) have implicated two classes of risk variant: common variants[1][1]–[3][2], each of small effect but collec...

Autism spectrum disorder is a heritable neurodevelopmental condition affecting approximately 3% of children[1][1],[2][2] that presents with core behavioral features and a range of possible comorbiditi...

The Big 5 personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness to experience) are moderately heritable correlates of behavior, health, and life outcomes. Character...

An AI system trained on more than 20,000 protein structures from pharmaceutical companies outperforms AlphaFold-like models that use only public data.

More than one million genomes helped identify DNA variants linked to extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and more. Researchers measured how those traits influenced how people lived.