“The Touch of Madness,” published online today in Pacific Standard magazine, is probably the most important article I’ve ever written. In the ...
Roberta Payne, author of the superb memoir Speaking to My Madness, did the cover art on the current issue of Schizophrenia Bulletin. The issue also runs an essa...
Michael O’Donovan and Kenneth Kendler, eminences in psychiatric genetics for good reason, look at the implications of recent (early) progress in identifyi...
An unprecedently large genetic study of schizophrenia has linked a bunch of new genes to this confusing ailment. This’ll take years, decades maybe, to sort out,...
Is mental illness a product of biology or culture? Ethan Watters, over at Pacific Standard, argues that whatever the biology involved in mental illness, ...
I wanted to kill myself. Almost. In my mind I went right to that edge and knew that I wanted to try to kill myself but be found while I was still alive. But ...
How does culture shape the expression of mental illness or anamolous mental states? I’ve explored that questions several times at Neuron Culture, sometime...
From “I Should Be Included in the Census,” by Amy Johnson. This is the catch-22, the double bind. Schizophrenia happens to 1% of the population. We ...
Neuron Culture blogger David Dobbs takes another look at the causes of tragedies like the one in Aurora.