What Are the Consequences the Upcoming Neurological Epidemic?
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at
4:09 am
Josh asked:
http://blog.ted.com/2008/12/the_coming_neur.php
http://blog.ted.com/2008/12/the_coming_neur.php
Not necessarily talking about Alzheimers or Parkinsons disease, but any other mental disorder caused by medical trends, in turn, reducing natural selection. When natural selection is cut off, mental disorders can breed at a rapid rate causing those with them to breed with the masses. Chances are if youre reading this, you too have a mental disorder. 1/3 of the known population has a mental disorder. Does this alarm anybody else or is it just me?
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a little bit but thats why we have medicines i guess
Eventually genetic screening will be easily available at affordable costs. This means that it will be possible to determine what each party is bringing to the table and to make sensible decisions.
Will it happen? Not for many people, especially some with certain conditions. Will we ever reach a point where these tests become mandatory? Probably in novels but not necessarily in law.
As people live closer together there are more chances for the fueling of mental disorders as well. This has already happened.
If street drug use continues at its rate of growth, there will be other neurological issues as well.
All that said, there is something wrong with your basic premise. You haven’t established that mental disorders are primarily caused by genetic issues. If they aren’t and many do not seem to be, natural selection may play only a small role in the scenes to play out.
Approximately 26.2% of the US population suffers from some sort of mental disorder. Keep in mind this also includes PTSD and AD and may also include the 40% of PD patients who suffer from a PD symptom: Parkinson’s depression. Nonetheless that’s just over 1 in 4 people (as opposed to 1 in 3).
Medications are not the best answer. Unfortunately they are the quickest way to deal with many problems. There is much investigation into addictions, schizophrenia. Expensive treatments for eating disorders. The VA is addressing PTSD in a limited way – certainly not enough.
Some of the problems causing these mental disorders might not happen with better parental training but that does not mean that the parents themselves have mental disorders. In many cases they do and their behavior, if not the genetics, breeds more mental health issue children. That scares me.