Posts Tagged ‘major depression’
Mental Illness Caused by ‘Gene Parasites’
Source: Kai Stachowiak, CCO public domain Could a viral infection you experience today cause mental health disorders for generations of your descendants? Absolutely. Many psychological disorders are driven by a viral infection in prehistoric times that disrupted DNA and has been passed down through generations. Viruses survive as genetic parasites because they must infect…
Read MoreViral Infections Millions of Years Ago Promote Inheritance of Mental Illness
People understand that someone can be predisposed to mental illness by inheriting certain genes or gene variants, but new research is revealing that inherited mental illnesses are also promoted by alterations in our DNA that were caused by viral infection of our ancestors over a million years ago. Remarkably, the changes do not modify parts…
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