LE FIGARO. – Is every psychiatric illness accompanied by biological factors?
P:r: Marion Leboyer. – These are diseases like any other. All diseases have a clinical translation. In psychiatry it is behavioral, but not only. For example, bipolar patients are twice as likely to develop metabolic syndrome, which predisposes them to cardiovascular disease. A whole series of endocrine, immunoinflammatory and brain disorders explain the emergence of psychiatric pathologies.
However, this idea of the disease being “in the head” persists…
It is a fallacy, probably inherited from Descartes, to assume that what happens in our heads is separate from the rest of physiology. We are one individual. What happens in our brain can, for example, mirror the interaction with our gut. We also know that many mental illnesses are caused by an interaction of factors…
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