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Lobotomy

The surgical severing of connections to the frontal lobes as a treatment for mental illness. It was performed on tens of thousands of people between…

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The Glutamate Hypothesis of Schizophrenia

The proposal that schizophrenia involves underactive NMDA receptors rather than, or as well as, excess dopamine. It explains what the dopamine…

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Hypothesis

The Inflammatory Hypothesis of Depression

The proposal that inflammation causes depression in some patients. The evidence is better than for the serotonin account it partly replaced, and the…

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Hypothesis

The Social Defeat Hypothesis of Psychosis

The proposal that chronic experience of being excluded or subordinated raises the risk of psychosis, by sensitising the brain's dopamine system. It…

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Hypothesis

The Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia

The proposal that psychosis results from excess dopamine signalling. It has organised psychiatry for sixty years, it was inferred backwards from…

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Hypothesis

The Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression

The proposal that depression is caused by low serotonin, and that antidepressants work by correcting it. The popular version of this claim is not…

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