What Genetics And Biology Are Teaching Us About Mental Illness

The genomic revolution gave scientists a new foothold for understanding the origins of psychiatric disorders. Geneticist Benjamin Neale and neuroscientist Beth Stevens, both members of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, will follow modern psychiatry's development over the decades, and discuss how science at the intersection of genetics and biology is opening new directions and giving new hope.

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