View some of our key mental health research. Generation Scotland volunteers have allowed researchers to study very important mental health issues, such as loneliness in the digital world, depression (also known as major depressive disorder), schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and many more. These projects often involve studying how our genes and environment influences our mental health. This area of research is hugely important so we can better understand and treat mental health in our generation and in the future. Global study pinpoints genes for depression across ethnicities The world’s largest and most diverse genetic study ever into major depression has revealed nearly 300 previously unknown genetic links to the condition, experts say. GS volunteers help to develop and use cutting-edge tools to find and treat major depression Depression is a complicated disorder, so Generation Scotland (along with other international researchers) are bringing together large samples, brain images (MRI) and new machine learning models (AI) to identify brain markers of people with depression and develop individual treatments. Link found between Schizophrenia and neurological condition: synaesthesia Synaesthesia is a condition where people associate letters and numbers with specific colours. Researchers found this condition to share some biology with schizophrenia. Ongoing study: Loneliness in the Digital World Read about our study co-produced with young people: Loneliness in the Digital World. Long-term inflammation may hold a key to understanding depression Researchers based at the University of Edinburgh found that longer-term inflammation was related to changes in brain structure, which may help shed light on causes of depression. This article was published on 2024-07-30
