There is more to biology than genetics.
The identification of genetic factors involved in causing psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia holds great promise. But as this information becomes available, psychiatrists also must continue to attend to what schizophrenia feels like to individual patients.
The molecular characterization of a disease like schizophrenia may become enormously helpful in guiding researchers to new treatments and in helping to distinguish disease subtypes. But there is more to biology than genetics. The human brain and the disorders that can affect it are too complex to be seen exclusively through the reductionist lens of genetic research. ...