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...Harvard-MIT institute announced a $100 million gift this week to create a new center to study psychiatric disease, in a move that backers say will jump-start the search for the genetic basis of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The Stanley Medical Research Institute awarded the gift—the largest ever given for psychiatric disease research—to the Broad Institute, a three-year-old joint venture between Harvard and MIT. “There’s no understanding of the causes of these diseases, and that needs to come from collaboration between clinical people and those...
...culture-bound syndrome,” and has no scientific basis. Their argument is based on the conclusion that no evidence for the existence of repressed memory exists in literature, fiction or non-fiction, before 1800—while other psychological disorders like epilepsy and schizophrenia have been documented since ancient times. Since the onset of their literary quest over a year ago, the researchers at Harvard-affiliated Mclean hospital have promised $1,000 to anyone who can provide a pre-1800 counterexample to their claim. The contest, known as the “Repression Challenge...
Williams and other brain researchers are already finding that the atlas can be a time saver, speeding them to their ultimate goal: developing new treatments for such human neurological disorders as dementia, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. In a matter of days, for example, Williams used it to home in on the most promising gene candidate among 20 he had isolated that were involved in aggression and the fear response. Analyzing each gene individually, even with high-throughput methods, would have taken months. He will next look at this gene in human populations to determine whether variants in the gene...
...that's hardly surprising. Even without anything approaching a complete understanding of the complexities of the human brain, neurologists and psychopharmacologists have come up with dozens of medications to treat schizophrenia, depression and other disorders. The next batch of psychoactive drugs could provide ammunition against the even more mysterious disorders of memory...
...causes brain and liver damage. Marijuana, on the other hand, is relatively harmless. As studies have shown, there is no conclusive evidence that it causes cancer or a significant decline in cognitive functioning. Nor does it necessarily lead to dangerous behavior. Media claims that adolescent marijuana use leads to schizophrenia are hyperbolic at best. The worst thing getting high will do to you is make you spend a whole day on the couch eating Doritos...