> The team found that when one partner was diagnosed with one of the nine conditions, the other was significantly more likely to be diagnosed with the same or another psychiatric condition.
> People with a psychiatric disorder are more likely to marry someone who has the same condition than to partner with someone who doesn’t, according to a massive study
Or...
exe34 · 1h ago
are you suggesting it's transmissible? i.e correlation implies causation?
Alzheimer's isn't in the set they're looking at here, but a curious data point is that neurosurgeons die of Alzheimer's at ~2.5x the rate of the general public.
There's definitely a live hypothesis that it's caused by some type of transmissible infection.
fcarraldo · 19m ago
What does `significantly` imply here, numerically? The numbers seem to be behind the paywall.
> People with a psychiatric disorder are more likely to marry someone who has the same condition than to partner with someone who doesn’t, according to a massive study
Or...
Alzheimer's isn't in the set they're looking at here, but a curious data point is that neurosurgeons die of Alzheimer's at ~2.5x the rate of the general public.
There's definitely a live hypothesis that it's caused by some type of transmissible infection.