A correlation found between psychiatric disorders and events during the prenatal stage

Particular genetic variants in the human genome that are important for the development of the brain early in the life of the fetus are frequently found in psychiatric disorders. This is shown by a study carried out by iPSYCH. Researchers studied a total of 8 million genetic variants and found that some of them occur particularly often in people who have one or more of the following psychiatric disorders: schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, autism, and ADHD. This background is provided by Professor Thomas Werge from the Mental Health Services & University of Copenhagen and the Lundbeck Foundation's Initiative for Integrated Psychiatric Research, commonly referred to as iPSYCH, which has received a total of DKK 361 million in funding from the Lundbeck Foundation.