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Statement of Psychiatric Survivors Made at the 2012 Carter Center Symposium
This is a statement composed by 6 psychiatric survivors at the 2012 Carter Center Symposium on Social Inclusion. Dan Fisher reads it at the end of his panel presentation on Integrated Care and Wellness. The conference was highly focused on the disease model of emotional distress. This statement is about our concerns with the disease model approach and how it might be increasing stigma. Many people in the audience doubted our quote saying Thomas Insel of NIMH has admited there is no genetic evidence for mental illness. The exact quote is right here, from JAMA. 2010;303(19): "Where is the missing genetic signal for mental illness? The discovery that large (1 megabase) structural or copy number variants, such as deletions and duplications, are 10-fold more common in autism and schizophrenia is an important clue.3,4 Copy number variants are individually rare,sometimes restricted to a single family or developing de novo in an individual. Although "private mutations" are rare (reminiscent of Tolstoy #39;s dictum that "each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"), they are in aggregate remarkably common, spread across vast expanses of the genome, and ultimately could explain more genetic risk than common variants. Although many of the genes implicated are involved in brain development, copy number variants do not appear to be specific for illnesses in the current diagnostic scheme. Within families, the same copy number variant may be associated with schizophrenia in one person ...From:Corinna WestViews:0 1ratingsTime:05:09More inNonprofits Activism

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