mental illness
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From one angle or another, I’ve been writing about the intersection of homelessness, mental illness and addiction for a couple of decades, and I still have a lot to learn.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
The just-quirky-girls-at-a-country-club mood does eventually turn darker, but the musical, like some other works of art about mental illness, often falls into the trap of romanticizing it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
By and large, experts point to systematic failures that leave Americans more vulnerable to mental illness and without access to drug-free interventions, which cost both time and money.
From Salon • May 18, 2026
Maddock and Smucny have long studied how brain chemistry is connected to mental illness using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy, also known as 1H-MRS.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
Maudsley had studied mental illness among families and concluded that the patterns of inheritance were vastly more complex than the ones Galton had proposed.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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