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If its not just a matter of perspective and only medication can help, etc, then why do we call depression a "psychological" or "mental health" concern? Why isn't it just considered a neurological disease?


Not sure what your point is, many mental health concerns are caused by neurological diseases.

In case of depression in particular, it appears to be a label given to a big bag of various issues you may have causing similar symptoms.


Depression is increasingly starting to be seen as a neurobiological disorder as we learn more.

In my own opinion, we need to stop viewing "mental health" as a separate class of conditions from general/physical health. A mental illness is a health/medical condition just like any other and shifting our views and diagnostic criteria in that direction would do a lot to remove the stigma associated with mental illness.

Someone with depression has a chronic illness, not a temporary "it's just in your head" condition.


What about investors from other stock exchanges and locales? I don't understand why the phrase "Wall Street" is being included in this.


"xAI entirely bypassed the grid and generated power onsite, using truck-mounted gas turbines and engines."

So they solved the power problem by consuming more fossil fuel. Got it.


And all without the proper permits! Using 35 generators when they were only allowed 15! Yay! So glad we're allowing AI companies to break law after law after law to not be able to reason logically the basic Towers of Hanoi.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/xai-gets-permits-for-15-na...


Well you just said they are smart, so...


spawn more overlords!


It sounds like the researchers failed to compare their semaglutide group to a calorie-controlled placebo group. The beneficial changes noted in the semaglutide group could very well be due to reduced calorie diet, rather than a specific effect of the drug itself.

This is why people end up skeptical of academic types and science publications.


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