Nature vs. Nurture, Neurogenetics, Personality, Autism, Schizophrenia, Synesthesia & Free Will | Kevin Mitchell | 78
Mind & Matter
00:00
Symptoms of a Schizophrenia
Psychiatrist will say, ok, i've recognized this cluster of symptoms. And we've come up with this label for itand so it's a construct. But does it reflect what philosophers call a natural kind? Or are we just trying to impose orderliness on something that's actually a lot fuzzier? It turns out the genetics of all these things is really overlapping. From a genetic point of view, the risk is actually shared across these different categories. So you've got risks here which are highly variable and explain why people have very different penotypes.
Transcript
Play full episode
