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The BRAID:

Biology, Environment -- AGE / TIME

Mental Health Practice has been stalled out for about 25 years
The argument over biology vs. environment isn't going to get us there because it is both.
There is a lot of work to do to understand complex biological and Enviromental inter-relationships over time.


Biology (a+b+c+x) + Environment (a+b+c+x) + Age / Time (a lot  of implications for the Endocrine System but also the accumulation of "plaques" and deterioration)

Mental Health is forcing us to INTEGRATION of the Systems of the Body and the Environment  because we can't UNDERSTAND the EVIDENCE if we don't do the HARD WORK of UNDERSTANDING these INTER-RELATIONSHIPS.

This INTEGRATION is how the "ORGANISM" experiences life.


3 Big Takeaways

  • Cognitive and Social Abilities Rely on Fine-Tuned Equilibrium of Innate & Adaptive Immune Responses (2019)​
  • Innate Immune Cells are Regulators of Brain Development & Behavioral Function​​​​ (2018)
  • The Vagus Nerve serves as Modulator of the Brain-Gut Axis in Psychiatric and Inflammatory Disorders.  (2018)

"Pain Is A Central Neuro-IMMUNE ACTIVATION"

Med Minute (2018):  How your immune system could influence post-partum depression.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) -- 2014:  Why delayed onset of mental illness? Genes impact suspect brain areas late.    Genes x Environment x Age

In 2015, NIMH announces not only genes associated with the IMMUNE SYSTEM associated with Mental Illness but EPIGENETIC CHANGES to the Immune System associated with Mental Illness.
2016:  Famed Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explains why the Mind is more the just the Brain.
Research Square (2017):  Does the Immune System Link Childhood Abuse with Adult Mental Illness
TED (2017):  The Trauma of Systematic Racism is Killing Black Women
Flavio Kapczinski on "Neuroprogression and immune activation in bipolar disorder" at the World Congress of Psychiatry 2017, Berlin.