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The biology of mental illness

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One of the greatest marketing feats of the past 20 years is the use of pharmaceutical companies' dollars to convince the mass media that psychiatrists, who prescribe these companies' drugs are basing their treatment on anything resembling science. —Bruce Levine, psychologist and author of Comonsense Rebellion

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Jonathan Leo is associate professor of anatomy at Western University of Health Sciences. “Broken Brains or Flawed Studies? A Critical Review of ADHD Neuroimaging Research” was recently published inThe Journal of Mind and Behavior and “The Fallacy of the 50% Concordance Rate for Schizophrenia in Identical Twins” appeared inThe Human Nature Review.

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Leo, J. The biology of mental illness. Soc 41, 45–53 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02688217

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