Because of the statistically high incidence of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the Jewish Ashkenazi community, there have been several ongoing medical studies requesting volunteers to help scientists better understand the biological basis of these conditions: [However,] Yeshiva University Prof. Rabbi Moshe Tendler, a medical ethicist, has expressed concerns about [such] studies focusing only... 

A new survey of more than 8,000 people has found that those who identify with left-wing political beliefs are more likely to have been diagnosed with a mental illness. Ann Coulter’s “liberalism is a mental disorder” catchphrase has become something of a clichéd meme, but the data appears to support it. Carried out by Slate Star Codex, the online survey collected a wealth of data from respondents...