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‘Schizophrenia’ may not exist

‘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 […]

Online test to discover if you were born to be sad

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 […]