Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health Hospitality 
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
APRIL 16, 2024
3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission. If we apply this estimate to USA, we get 315,000 annual drug deaths in hospitals. times as many.
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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 felt like I had taken a magical pill to cure whatever might have been wrong with me… until I crashed, became paranoid and landed in the hospital. And they did.
Mad in America
JUNE 28, 2024
He was talking about being abandoned for a month at the age of one because his mother was protecting his life during the Nazi occupation of Hungary. Past the “two major accidents a year through the age of six” as my father once confessed to the woman who would become my second wife? Is that even possible? This was no isolated incident.
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 28, 2024
You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience. I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Her second book, which we will be discussing today, Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America , explores the lives of the four women behind the National Institute of Mental Health’s famous case study of schizophrenia. He sets out to study the genetics of schizophrenia, through twins.
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