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What brain abnormalities?

Gil,

I categorically dispute that there are well-established correlations between physical brain abnormalities and "mental illnesses" such a depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

All that is well established is that: 1) a lot of people have published papers claiming to have found such correlations, and that the later discoveries of such correlations tend to correlate poorly with the earlier discoveries; and 2) none of these discoveries have led to effective predictive tests (or even reliable diagnostic tests) for the "mental illnesses" they are supposed to correlate with.

by KW on Wed, 02/23/2005 - 22:41

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