Hair Analysis: A Cardinal Sign of Quackery
Can't find anything on a specific gene for bipolar disorder, but apparently the rates of it are greater among people of higher socio-economic status, wierd huh.
.....the BBC reported on a forthcoming report in which researchers compared African-Caribbeans living in the UK with those still living in Trinidad and Barbados. Those in the former group were experiencing significantly greater psychological problems than the latter. Most interesting was the finding that African-Caribbean individuals who had been separated from their parents for more than four years had a significantly higher incidence of schizophrenia, a supposedly genetic disorder (similar results have reported for Mexican-Americans; see ?Toxic Culture? in the July/August 2001 issue).
Of course parents play a supportive, non-threatening role in Caribbean culture and thus the result that transient modern society can be toxic should come as no surprise. Indeed, as a cover story on ?manic-depression? reported in the August 11 issue of Time, ?Bipolar disorder ? seems to be showing up in children at an increasing rate, and that has taken a lot of mental-health professionals by surprise.? Unfortunately, Time saw fit to serve its pharmaceutical masters, telling its many readers that the best solution to this growing epidemic of childhood distress is to put more kids on even more toxic pills. Drugs once reserved for only the most psychotic individuals are now given to children whose only crime is responding in a normal way to an increasingly toxic environment. Now there?s something to be depressed about.
Can't find anything on a specific gene for bipolar disorder, but apparently the rates of it are greater among people of higher socio-economic status, wierd huh.
.....the BBC reported on a forthcoming report in which researchers compared African-Caribbeans living in the UK with those still living in Trinidad and Barbados. Those in the former group were experiencing significantly greater psychological problems than the latter. Most interesting was the finding that African-Caribbean individuals who had been separated from their parents for more than four years had a significantly higher incidence of schizophrenia, a supposedly genetic disorder (similar results have reported for Mexican-Americans; see ?Toxic Culture? in the July/August 2001 issue).
Of course parents play a supportive, non-threatening role in Caribbean culture and thus the result that transient modern society can be toxic should come as no surprise. Indeed, as a cover story on ?manic-depression? reported in the August 11 issue of Time, ?Bipolar disorder ? seems to be showing up in children at an increasing rate, and that has taken a lot of mental-health professionals by surprise.? Unfortunately, Time saw fit to serve its pharmaceutical masters, telling its many readers that the best solution to this growing epidemic of childhood distress is to put more kids on even more toxic pills. Drugs once reserved for only the most psychotic individuals are now given to children whose only crime is responding in a normal way to an increasingly toxic environment. Now there?s something to be depressed about.