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Genetics and mental health

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Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology

Mad in America

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Moreover, in stark contrast to the discoveries by medical researchers of biological causation for many physical illnesses, psychiatric researchers have failed to find physiological or genetic causation for the most diagnosed mental disorders—the anxiety disorders and depression—negating the rationale for the prescription of these drugs.

Poverty and mental health

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Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think

Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics. Much has already been written about these points, for example in my book on mental health and substance use (open access).

Genetics and mental health

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Mental Health Clinicians

Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology

Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think

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