Mental disorder Quote by Meredith F. Small

“There are a small number of debilitating conditions with a strong genetic basis, such as muscular dystrophy or Huntington’s disease. These are rare, affecting…

— Gabor Maté

“Perhaps periods of anxiety, sadness, panic, and sheer craziness are just part of the mental continuum that nature has provided to help us stay…

— Meredith F. Small

“Thanks to subsequent years of conversations with evolutionists, especially Williams, and with medical school residents and faculty, he has found that an evolutionary perspective…

— Randolph M. Nesse

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.

— Keith Henson

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

— Keith Henson

“Genetic variability evolves over many millennia, yet we know that the rates of anxiety disorders have skyrocketed in just the last century, not to…

— Henry Emmons

“It took the full force of human genetics to bring sanity to the study of madness.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering…

— Temple Grandin

“For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends on the…

— Paul Valéry

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered…

— Karin Slaughter

“Thus, evolution has shaped our brains so that we are hardwired to suffer psychologically: to compare, evaluate, and criticize ourselves, to focus on what…

— Russ Harris

It happens that there are a lot of people who are very talented who also happen to have a mental disorder. A lot of…

— H. A. Berlin