Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Unbalanced, for instance, in the sense that much emphasis is placed on brain and genetic studies that to this day have cost billions of dollars, while showing only very small associations—not providing any basis for biological screening. Genetic studies are also the cause of many misunderstandings.

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Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

A recent Neuroscience News article is titled “ Bipolar disorder can be detected with blood test. ” 1 This is one of many recent, oversimplified headlines that encourage us to think we are on the brink of discovering the next biomarker that will scientifically validate biomedical psychiatric disorders.

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Now Psych

MAY 20, 2024

per cent of the population have schizoaffective disorder: its a lot less common than either major depression or bipolar disorder. Individuals with schizophrenia may have an increased risk for first-degree relatives for schizoaffective disorder, and vice-versa. What Causes Schizoaffective Disorder?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

In the article, Torrey reviews the history of the Human Genome Project, their hopes for identifying the genetic basis for schizophrenia, and how those hopes have been dashed by the complete failure to find anything of the sort. Torrey is a psychiatrist and a researcher on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

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Real Psychiatry

APRIL 18, 2025

Two questionnaires were administered at baseline one to look at psychosocial determinants and risk factors for mental illness and the other for substance use history. Just looking at the sequence of events I have described here the relationship between cannabis and psychosis is probable to definite according to this scale.

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Lawyers with Depression

JANUARY 28, 2024

Depression is a mental health disorder that affects roughly 10 to 15 percent of the general population. This is the medical definition of depression. However, this definition fails to capture the experience of what its like to be depressed. Take your mental health seriously. He received his Ph.D.

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