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Genetics and mental health

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2025

Dr. Moncrieff is a psychiatrist who works in the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. Moncrieff: When I was in medical school we were taught, as we’re still officially taught now, the biopsychosocial model of mental disorders. Whitaker: So now you go out and you’re in the asylum or mental hospital.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Neurotransmitters and mental health Pharmaceuticals Genetics and mental health Biopsychosocial model

On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

My first column was about David Foster Wallace, whose ‘This is Water’ commencement address at Kenyon College (2005) had become a touchstone ( see transcript here , and audio recording here ). OCD has a strong genetic component and was thought to be incurable. There are no studies, not yet. So things are moving.

Aging and mental health

Aging and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain

Mental Health Clinicians

Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

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