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What causes mental illness ?  - Many of the causes that lead to mental illness are also the causes that lead to physical illnesses like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Family ...

What Causes Mental Illness ? Scientists Hope Lab-Grown Mini Brains Will Help Them Find Out -  Psychiatric research is full of complex problems and the appeal of new technologies to untangle them is high. A new study in Translational Psychiatry aimed to do just that: By growing cerebral organoids, or mini brains, derived from the cells of a group of patients with schizophrenia, Michal Stachowiak's ...

Do you inherit your parent's mental illness ? - In the battle to find what causes mental illness , scientists are increasingly looking at genetic factors. For James Longman - whose father killed himself ...

What Causes Anxiety? We Might Inherit Mental Illness From Our Parents Study in Monkey Suggests - The connections in the regions of the brain that contribute to whether we develop anxiety disorders could be something we inherit, according to a ...

What Causes Seasonal Affective Disorder ?  -  Also known as Depressive Order With Seasonal Pattern, Seasonal Affective Disorder is diagnosable mental illness a lot of people have to grapple with ...

What is Munchausen syndrome in Psychology? - This refers to a mental disorder that causes people to resort to feigning physical or mental illness in order to draw the attention of others. Patients affected by the syndrome could often resort to a variety of deceitful tactics, including hurting themselves deliberately, to portray themselves as sick and in need ...