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Depression, schizophrenia and some other mental health conditions can have very different symptoms but they all seem to be connected by a set of structures in the brain.
This network may help us understand the link between certain genes and psychiatric symptoms, and suggests a focus on symptoms, rather than categorising mental health conditions, may be a better way to help people.
“We know for psychiatric illnesses, the categories of diagnosis are not very reliable,” says Maxime Taquet at the University of Oxford. Psychiatric conditions have been shown to overlap when it comes…
