A Rutgers-led international collaboration has identified 36 genes that substantially raise the risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and chronic tic disorders – providing what two researchers said is the most detailed biological understanding of how these conditions develop – and how they might eventually be treated.
A study involving Rutgers researchers suggests violence prevention programs should give adolescents and younger adults safer strategies and more support. Nearly three-quarters of young people who witnessed or became aware of a firearm-related danger tried to help in some way, but many felt their efforts had little impact, according to researchers at Rutgers University, nonpartisan research institute NORC at the University of Chicago and the University of New Hampshire.