Five major psychiatric diseases have overlapping patterns of genetic activity, new study shows

washingtonpost. ^ | by Amy Ellis Nutt February 8 at 2:00 PM Email the author

[IncPen]

there is undoubtedly a contribution from environmental effects

I'll take Global Warming® for $300, Alex.

[doorgunner69]

You left out SSAD.

[Fraxinus]

I forget where I saw the reference to the paper, but I remember a claim with supporting evidence that Autism and a lot of other mental problems are linked to fever at a critical time during pregnancy. There is anecdotal evidence that those born in 1919 had a higher rate of schizophrenia, possibly because their mothers caught the flu.

[luckystarmom]

My mom and my son are bipolar. I know my mom has never done pot. Both got triggered after major events: my dad almost dying triggered my mom and my son saw his roommate try to kill himself by jumping off their apartment building.

I know lots of people with autistic kids who never did pot.

[DannyTN]

I’m not saying pot is always the cause.

[100American]

Vaccines

[Steely Tom]

Beyond that, psychological problems are mostly variants of neurotic behavior which is just "thinking incorrectly" and you can train people out of that.

"Any man caught thinking incorrectly spends a night in the box."

[Chickensoup]

That is a personality disorder not a brain dysfunction

[Chickensoup]

some personality disorders have up to 50% heritability.

[SunkenCiv]

Prehistoric autism helped produce much of the world’s earliest great art, study says
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/prehistoric-autism-cave-paintings-barry-wright-penny-spikins-university-of-york-a8351751.html

[SunkenCiv]

"...by Amy Ellis Nutt"

Note: this topic is from 02/08/2018. Thanks BenLurkin.

[Alas Babylon!]

Found BF Skinner!

[dsc]

“Any man caught thinking incorrectly spends a night in the box.”

I think he was referring to, inter alia, Albert Ellis and the practitioners of Rational Emotive Therapy.