Solis: Schizophrenia—A Difficult Definition

Solis: Schizophrenia—A Difficult Definition

How do doctors around the world agree on a complex disease? Michele Solis digs into the history of schizophrenia to find out. Michele reports for Distillations from @SciHistoryOrg on how a disease that is diagnosed by behavior was internationally defined. It took a...
Lindley: Huntington History

Lindley: Huntington History

Eugenics, frontal lobotomies, and a link (inaccurate) between Huntington disease and the Salem witch trials. It’s all in Robin Lindley’s conversation with Dr. Tom Bird, a medical pioneer and University of Washington researcher. For History News Network,...

Lindley: A History of Depression

Robin Lindley explains the ups and downs of depression over the years in an interview with Dr. Edward Shorter for George Mason University’s History News Network. From pre-Freud to post-Prozac, Robin gets Dr. Shorter to explain his theory about why U.S. depression...