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. Yet laypeople, and many mental health professionals, still believe that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Searching for the Psychiatric Yeti: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic In January, Peter Simons wrote that the decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiatric Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. Nor have any new treatments become available from this research.
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Mad in America
APRIL 16, 2024
In 2013, I estimated that our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, 1 and in 2015, that psychiatric drugs alone are also the third leading cause of death. As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%.
Mad in America
JUNE 6, 2024
In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Including antipsychotics That first New Zealand survey was so productive I decided to replicate it internationally, when I moved, in 2015, to Swinburne University in Melbourne. tapering strips, liquid, smaller dose tablets) to ensure gradual reduction’ (88%) and ‘A health professional providing a personalised, flexible reduction plan’ (79%).
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
My sister took antidepressants and my family has a lot of mental health issues, so based on that, I was thrown into the same category. I decided to agree with the medical model, that it was a genetic disease that could be treated with a medication, like diabetes. Being a brain doctor, he focused on the headaches. I was angry.
National Association for the Advancement of Psycho
OCTOBER 20, 2018
Neubauer were conducting a study of identical twins and, in these three brothers case, triplets who would be separated at birth to determine whether genetics or environment was more important. The biological mother was Jewish, diagnosed with severe mental illness, schizophrenia. Viola Bernard and Peter B.
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