by Chris Tachibana | Jan 1, 2020 | ScienceWire
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...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
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,...
by Chris Tachibana | Sep 4, 2013 | ScienceWire
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...