Talk:Causes of mental disorders

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Good evening dear wikipedia, I would like to mention that you state that prozac has a good effect on depression however Prozac is a very strong POISON. You can read all about it on www.prozactruth.com Martin.

Halfway through, this article seems to shift from causes to treatment: the part on non-physical causes doesn't discuss causes, but talk therapy and the placebo effect. Ed, do you have something in mind here, or should I dive in and redo this (tomorrow, most likely)? Vicki Rosenzweig (7 May 2002)

You're right, and I'm sorry to say I no longer know where I was going with this. Please dive in! Ed Poor, Thursday, May 23, 2002

I'll do my best, but this isn't really my expertise. Is there a doctor in the house? Vicki Rosenzweig, Sunday, June 16, 2002

I took the liberty of deleting 'lobotomy' as a physical cause of psychiatric disorder. While lobotomy no doubt created many problems for those subjected to it, these are more properly regarded as neurologic effects of the proceedure and not psychiatric disorders. I don't think lobotomy is listed in the DSM, but if I am wrong I would retract this deletion. Beans 11/21/02


 * I think that "psychiatric" disorders preclude those with an organic cause including injury and drug induced states (though drug addiction is usually considered psychiatric). But at this time I have no source on that. Matt 04:37, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Hello everyone,

I added a short mention with links for 2 of the best twin studies about schizophrenia. Please don`t delete because they are very good academic research, with very big sample sizes (more than 16,000 and more than 15,000 pairs, respectively), and they have very good methodology also.

Alberto

neuron cell types as a potential cause of mental disorders
I'd like to get a consensus on the following:

There is a theory out there that the cause of some disorders may be attributable to neuron cell types (electrophysiological, morphological, or genetic)

such that disorders don't arise out of dysfunctional brain regions but out of a dysfunctional specific cell type no matter where it occurs. this type of theory may explain why some disorders are difficult to locate on a brain scan (note that most research-grade MRI's don't have the resolution to see beyond individual Cortical minicolumns which are about 1mm^2 surface aria)

for more information see the Q and A at the end of this talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCANsfHAS5I

if you want to know about cell types in general visit the Allen institute for brain science youtube channel. They have great talks on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/user/AllenInstitute/playlists

should this information be entered in the article?RJJ4y7 (talk) 14:54, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

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