Let's just guess at a diagnosis with our Ouija board

[cvirtue]

"There are no blood tests or brain scans for mental illnesses so diagnoses are subjective and unreliable. [Symptoms and diagnoses overlap and change depending on who you talk to.] The way forward, it said, is a new research programme to discover the brain problems that underlie mental illnesses. That research is now taking off

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[pamelina]

Well, good. It's about time they started acting empirical stead of imperious.

Complex problems are so difficult, though, what with environmental influences, genetic influences, and nutritional influences, etc. I was fascinated by last week's Cosmos, with the story about the trials of the scientist who campaigned against leaded gasoline.