‘Schizophrenia’ falsely groups people with a wide range of problems together
Schizophrenia has been attributed to everything from genetic predisposition, brain chemistry, sufferers’ home environment and even cat-borne viruses, but no consistent causal pattern has ever been identified. As a result, treatment outcomes for today’s patients are not very different from those of patients treated 100 […]
Test online your genetic disposition to depression
RESEARCHERS at the University of Manchester are testing our genetic disposition to depression with a unique internet test.
The team, based at the Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit (NPU), in the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, has set up a website ( http://www.newmood.co.uk ) where would-be volunteers can see how […]