Inflammation, Myelin Repair, and a Possible Cure for Mental Illness
I donβt count ptsd or c-ptsd as mental illness but rather a natural response to trauma.
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Regardless, this might be useful for many people
@Museek We've been ignoring 90% of the cells in the brain -- that is starting to change.
I'm going to quibble a tiny bit with one part. (apologies in advance for piping up.)
Not counting them as mental illness, even the way you did is sort of like saying PTSD is OK but mental illness should keep its stigma.
Ur analogy is just in a way, but we don't say a fever isn't part of disease or illness yet it's just a response to infection.
M.I. has to be OK the same way it's OK to have a broken arm.
@electrikmonk great point. I see mental illness on a spectrum. There are some who are severely mentally ill. I suppose that could be considered stereotyping and so I am glad you brought it to my attention.. just a few moments ago I was surprised to be stereotyped.. Iβll explain in a moment. I guess Iβd like to know how one differentiates?
@Museek My post-doc adviser had a good friend of his (also in our depart) was in the hospital after a suicide attempt. When I asked if people were getting flowers/something-basket going he replied that he did not think it appropriate.
After a long sigh, I reminding him that if his friend was laid up with a broken leg after crashing his bike, wild horses wouldn't keep him from going into his hospital room and teasing the hell out of him for doing something stupid. This wasn't really different...
@electrikmonk this is an excellent point and Iβm sorry I came off ignorantly because I just donβt think of depression as mental illness but clearly it is classified as such.
@Mrs_Bones and I have a book related to that. It's about the Aboriginals whose genes have 2 fewer chromosomes, and the difference between them and "Civilized" people. Worth a read. π
Mr. Bones, if you could, please look up any relevant citations to primary research articles in that book. When I do a quick search in PubMed (Australia chromosome loss) I don't see articles come up that support it--specifically, the 44 chromosome count. This is one of those things were not finding it in PubMed means it does not exist in widely read scientific journals and so can be considered suspect.
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Oh, they haven't LOST chromosomes. We have sorta Evolved EXTRAS. Or so the story goes. And apparently, we will one day evolve again to "Balance us out" and bring harmony again.
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@Heucuva8 @Mrs_Bones @Museek @chakaal
Please tell me you don't believe that.
I don't believe or doubt any of it. A co-worker gave us the book. I don't know enough to claim any of it is true OR false. I didn't do anything in Biology.
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It could be all bogus for all I know.
@Heucuva8 @Mrs_Bones @Museek @chakaal
After looking into it, I would say It's junk. I would have said junk science but I don't want the word "science" any where near it. π
@electrikmonk @Heucuva8 @Mrs_Bones @Museek The chromosome count was why I bothered to look up the book.
@chakaal @Heucuva8 @Mrs_Bones @Museek
And I am not seeing that in PubMed.
@Heucuva8 @Mrs_Bones @electrikmonk
I boosted so I could come back to it but found it strange, too. Thought it might have just my reading of it, at first glance.
At this point, I would say it can be ignored.
I was intrigued when the topic came up but it seems to be more fancy than fact.
@electrikmonk @Museek @Heucuva8 @Mrs_Bones
Genes are on chromosomes, not the other way around. So if he's saying there are two genes deleted in Australian first peoples
-- or more accurately, they have identified a gene that occurs in Australians and not in Europeans, because it's hubris to assume who gained or lost it -- that is possible. But as most of our DNA can be deleted or mutated without apparent ill effects, it's opinion whether that gene difference means anything at all.
@EileenKCarpenter @Museek @Heucuva8 @Mrs_Bones
The claim made was not about genes. The claim was that a breading population of human alive today are walking around with 22 pairs of chromosome with the 23rd splitting up and appending (in parts) to two other chromosomes.
@electrikmonk @Museek @Heucuva8 @Mrs_Bones
That would be immediately obvious if they tried to have children with anyone with 23 pairs. It's impossible to be fertile with discordant numbers of chromosomes unless you're talking sex chromosomes.
@EileenKCarpenter @Museek @Heucuva8 @Mrs_Bones
And, that's why some of were starching our heads.
@EileenKCarpenter @Museek @Heucuva8 @Mrs_Bones
Fuck, I really can't type. Or read. Or write.
@Heucuva8 @Mrs_Bones @electrikmonk @Museek I looked this book up and there seem to be legitimate questions about its authenticity. Particular, aboriginal Australians have slammed it pretty hard and I'd sooner take their word for it than blindly trust the author.