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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

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Subscribers get free access to all Mad in America content and webinar events. Torrey writes, Over twenty years later not a single gene has been identified to cause schizophrenia, despite the expenditure of almost $8 billion in genetic research by NIMH. You can become a MIA Supporter for $5 per month or $20 annually.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

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Within this, some parts of the neurodiversity movement take an uncritical or neutral perspective on the validity of psychiatric diagnoses such as—but not limited to—ASD and ADHD, backed up by unsubstantiated claims about biological and genetic causal factors. Instead, it describes a specific ‘neurominority’ , a particular kind of person.