Scientists Identify First Single Gene Known to Cause Mental Illness

> "a statistical analysis of data from 121 individuals possessing likely disease-causing variants of the gene. The team discovered that 25 of these individuals had a diagnosed mental disorder, including psychotic, mood, anxiety, personality, or eating disorders. Notably, all but two of these subjects carried a “null” variant of the gene, suggesting it was non-functional."

Garbage. Obviously p-hacked or of dubious significance, sample size isn't nearly large enough, and "mental illness" is not a coherent nor psychometrically valid category.

Wouldn't big pharma and USA psychiatric community just love to find a genetic cause for mental illness.

A new mRNA mental health vaccine, wonder drug.

The dominant model for thinking about thinking across the Atlantic is Behaviourism, which depends on animals in laboratories, ‘controlled’ experiments, and various other trappings of science.

Never once looking at the societal causes of mental illness.

Prescribing SSRI's to a depressed mother, with three small children, who really needs a warm safe home, enough money to buy decent food and clothing, enough money to pay bills without the constant stress and worry, all of this is the real cause of her depression, not some disproved chemical imbalance.

Can you imagine the helplessness a psychotherapist experiences to see clients like this, week in week out, in their practice, knowing full well that an extra £50 a week would change that mother and childrens lives forever, and has nothing to do with any mental illness. These are societal causes!