depression – Uncommon Descent

More evidence of epigenetic control of genes

Epigenetics may play an important role in addiction and depression. Or, we hope, in fighting them.

J.P. Moreland on the reality of the mind tested by psychiatric disorder

Moreland: We are a unity of body, mind, spirit, emotions, and will and they all affect one another. And so, if my brain is damaged and it’s not producing the kinds of chemicals that it needs to help me have a good mood, then medication feels like oiling the engine or vitamins for your brain.

JVL Michael Egnor: If it’s alive, it has a soul. Are they all eternal I wonder? In the afterlife do you... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
asauber "i wonder which other source of DNA might have been involved with the pregnancy?" Still a unique human baby, no... – Michael Egnor muses on some shaky...
JVL Asuaber: it’s obvious the Earth (our niche environment) was specially made for us to live in or we wouldn’t be... – Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems...
JVL Jerry: A vapid statement that keeps getting repeated over the years as if it means something. I've been asking for... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
JVL BobRyan: If a fetus, which is Latin for baby, is simply part of the mother to be, why is there... – Michael Egnor muses on some shaky...
asauber I think people are suffering from the game/pretense of expectations or preconceptions being met/not met. Upon detached examination (see Michael... – Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems...
jerry But it cannot be called a scientific endeavour until it starts researching the designer and the mechanisms used to realize... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Viola Lee Egner writes, " Perhaps the most common justification that abortion proponents give for supporting abortion is that the human embryo... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
JVL ET: As I said and you have proven, Stonehenge stands alone. Those other two are not like Stonehenge. Those other... – L&FP, 55: Defining/Clarifying Intelligent Design as...
jerry The existence or not of {forbidden term} has no impact on the validity of either evolution or ID. I’ve been... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/lfp-55-defining-clarifying-intelligent-design-as-inference-as-theory-as-a-movement/ – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Silver Asiatic Aristotle, Confucius, Siddhartha Gautama and the author of Ecclesiastes all addressed that within the same time frame 550-350 BC. – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
JHolo Jerry@112, again, I find myself agreeing with you. The existence or not of junk DNA has no impact on the... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
jerry the late George V. Coyne, a Jesuit priest Maybe it’s Jesuits that are the problem. After all you seem screwed... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
jerry Can we retire the term “junk DNA” since it essentially is a meaningless term. Why it is brought up I... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
chuckdarwin Relatd/49 Jerry Coyne is a secular Jew and emeritus professor of biology at UChicago--why would he be a spokesperson for... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Bob O'H: I’m sorry, is this the ID junk concept, or the actual one used by biologists, and referenced almost... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET JHolo: But it cannot be called a scientific endeavour until it starts researching the designer and the mechanisms used to... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
JHolo Jerry: People are getting hung up on ID being science. ID adds to science definitely. But it is not science.... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Bob O'H Sandy @ 101 - Have you searched newer articles than 2004 in the same Nature journal? I guess not because... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET Technology sometimes uses redundant systems. The extra systems can be removed without affecting the function. Those removed systems were not... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...