Category: Depression

What’s Happening to the Scientific Method?

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All sorts of well-established, repeatedly-confirmed findings have started to look increasingly uncertain in a wide range of scientific fields, from psychology to ecology.  This phenomenon is particularly widespread in the field of medicine. 
To read more about this, click on this article by Jonathan Lehrer in the The New Yorker:

Mental Illness and the Sun

On By A.P.In Depression, Health, Neuropsychiatric Disease, schizophrenia, Science, seasonal affective disorder, The Brain1 Comment

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It’s been known for a long time that winter-born babies are more likely to develop severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, depression and seasonal affective disorder.  Researchers at Vanderbilt and the University of Alabama may have identified clues as to how seasonal sunlight exposure could affect expression of clock genes that control our normal biological rhythms.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=blame-it-on-winter