Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think
Mad in America
MAY 17, 2025
T he paradigm of biological psychiatryin short, the view that mental disorders are diseases of the brainis essentially based on three assumptions: First, that the brain is the organ of the mind; second, that psychoactive substances or electrical stimulation of the nervous system alleviate the symptoms of mental disorders; and third, that parents genetically pass on a predisposition to mental disorders to their children.
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