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Holy shit they found the religion gene‽
Single gene can directly cause mental illness
🙄 Sure, i believe you clickbait headline.
Children with null variants were 87 times more likely to develop a psychotic disorder and six times more likely to have an anxiety disorder by age 12, and around 12 times more likely to develop a mood disorder by age 11.
😮 Oh... well... fuck. Okay, that's a lot.
makes a case for early childhood genetic testing in order to assess risk.
A genetic mental health test for children. Study hard kids, you don't want a low score on this one.
I wouldn't be surprised if they start testing for this in the womb and offering abortions based on the result. Like they do for downs syndrome.
Schizophrenia is no joke. Although, the article hints at possible new medications based on what we know about this gene which sounds hopeful.
It's like the article is saying there's a correlation between this gene and a list of mental health disorders - anxiety or even psychosis - but the disorders are not necessarily correlated with the gene, they occur in people without the gene. I just read through the article once.
I'm a bit jaded, I don't have a high opinion of a medicated society if that's what its coming down to. Too dystopian, like Soma in Brave New World, or people being arrested for "criminal drug evasion" like in the movie THX 1138.
I'd argue it's pretty hard to care about the society when your main goal is to avoid the shadow people demanding you lick the cactus. More drugs - more people with enough time to care.
Turn on, tune in, drop out
And of course the medical treatment will be very expensive without having very expensive health insurance.
Gattica here we come.
The i is for iodine
Gattaca here we come?
He have known about the singles nucleotide mutation causing sickle cell anemia for a long time and it hasn't caused a world of eugenics (yet)
Just curious, what people suffer most from sickle cell?
I knew it. It's my Uncle Gene. That fucker been wraselin kids for too darned long.
Do we know if/how some of these conditions were just accepted and dealt with in non western capitalist societies?
For examine Anxiety, which I have, probably does contribute positively to survival, but it doesn’t fit well with corporate work situations or school.
Anxiety, hypervigilance, hypersensitivity to social cues would have been very helpful in intelligent social creatures not yet at the top of the food chain. Similar arguments could even be made for schizophrenia, which presents differently and generally more positively in preindustrial societies, perhaps serving as an inspiring "shaman" like creator of cultural understanding of the world. Depression might be a way of preserving energy under periods of stress, etc.
People have coped with various difficult conditions in multiple ways throughout the history, mainly because they did not have any better choice. Even suggesting their suffering is natural and shouldn't be treated is pretty cruel.
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2025
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