HAHN: Are your genes to blame for mental illness?
By Patrick D. Hahn, The Baltimore Sun (TNS) Headlines on the purported genetic basis for mental illness — like this one from The Washington Post: “Some children born with the genetic risk for schizophrenia, scientists say” — have been staples of scientific journalism for years now. But what do they really mean? Is mental illness really just a matter of bad luck in the genetic lottery? Let’s focus on