Turns Out That Depression Isn’t Strongly Genetic After All. Really? Astonishing!
A powerful piece of medical dogma is the notion that depression has genetic roots. This is the idea that if…
Mental Illness, Love and Telomeres
Telomere length predicts lifespan. Now, a new study has shown an association between childhood trauma, shortened telomere length and mental…
Do herpes and inflammation make you cranky?
Confocal microscope image of cerebellar Purkinje cells. Stained with tdTomato, they appear golden! Image courtesy of National Institute on Alcohol…
Was Asperger a bad guy? Did he have Asperger’s?
Startling new evidence shows that Hans Asperger, after whom Asperger’s syndrome is named, was a Nazi sympathiser. He referred mentally…