{"id":113809,"date":"2025-05-19T07:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/113809\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T07:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:51:11","slug":"unravelling-the-genetics-of-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/113809\/","title":{"rendered":"Unravelling the genetics of mental illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>             In \u2018The Inherited Mind\u2019, James Longman explores his father\u2019s mental health battles                <\/p>\n<p>19 May 2025 &#8211; 05:00 <\/p>\n<p>UPDATED 19 May 2025 &#8211; 08:19 <\/p>\n<p> by Yvonne Fontyn<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve had a close family member diagnosed with a serious physical or mental condition, you may be concerned that you will suffer the same condition, that you \u201chave the gene\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>James Longman, chief international correspondent at TV channel ABC News, was so intent on finding out his own health \u201cheritability\u201d that he applied for access to his deceased father\u2019s medical records and spoke to his old friends, doctors and National Health Service (NHS) caretakers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In \u2018The Inherited Mind\u2019, James Longman explores his father\u2019s mental health battles 19 May 2025 &#8211; 05:00 UPDATED&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3846],"tags":[267,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-113809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-genetics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114533412562736492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}