Comments on: Schizophrenia Genetics: Complex http://www.pizaazz.com/2009/08/10/schizophrenia-genetics-complex/ Healthcare News & More Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:04:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ron Unger http://www.pizaazz.com/2009/08/10/schizophrenia-genetics-complex/comment-page-1/#comment-1071 Ron Unger Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:35:00 +0000 http://www.pizaazz.com/?p=5643#comment-1071 The notion that there is a relationship between apparent genetic risk for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder is being reported here as "new" but in fact is not new: for example Richard Bentall reported on studies leading to that conclusion in his book "Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature" which was published in 2003. While biologically oriented scientists love to focus on genetic risk, the involvement of lots of genes starts pointing more to the likelihood that vulnerability to the possibility of these problems is very widespread, and to really understand the problem of who gets what and why, we need to look way beyond just genes. The notion that there is a relationship between apparent genetic risk for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder is being reported here as “new” but in fact is not new: for example Richard Bentall reported on studies leading to that conclusion in his book “Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature” which was published in 2003.

While biologically oriented scientists love to focus on genetic risk, the involvement of lots of genes starts pointing more to the likelihood that vulnerability to the possibility of these problems is very widespread, and to really understand the problem of who gets what and why, we need to look way beyond just genes.

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