Epigenetics

The conventional Western classification systems of health conditions are based on flawed science shaped by reductionist, hierarchical, and profit-driven ideologies. THEN wants to create a new paradigm built upon principles drawn from systems science, the life course perspective, developmental neurobiology, and other evidence-informed studies.

Researchers experimenting on mice found that exposure to fluoxetine (Prozac) in utero resulted in behaviors considered in animal studies to be analogous to autism in humans.

The candidate-gene approach to depression goes unsupported and is likely based on bad science, new research finds.

Attempting to locate the mechanisms of psychiatric disorder is a step in the wrong direction and fails to challenge potentially unjust social practices.

The postmodern zeitgeist of the past few decades encourages us to believe that we can endlessly reinvent ourselves untethered to our human biology. But the explosion of research on the microbiome reminds us that we are deeply embedded in an ecosystem that lives within us and around us, without which we cannot survive.

A large and rigorous meta-analysis fails to find support for the gene-environment interaction theory of depression.

A letter just published in JAMA Psychiatry suggests that “precision psychiatry” is not the paradigm shift it’s purported to be by the psychiatric establishment.

Study uncovers some of the intergenerational consequences of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing has an “alarmingly high” 40% false-positive rate.

A new study suggests that epigenetic changes that have been associated with trauma may actually be due to environmental toxins.

Structural competency in psychiatry emphasizes the social factors shaping patient presentations and encourages physician advocacy.

The daughters of children evacuated from Finland during World War II show an increased number of psychiatric hospitalizations.

Neuroscientific results that class humans into two categories, “male” and “female,” tend to reify gender stereotypes by giving them the appearance of objective scientific truth.