Will knowledge of human pheromones ever be incorporated into psychiatry and psychology?
Scientific American April 30, 2013 New DSM-5 Ignores Biology of Mental Illness By Ferris Jabr
Excerpt: The latest edition of psychiatry’s standard guidebook neglects the biology of mental illness. New research may change that
My comment: The title of this article proclaims defeat for researchers like me who have advocated incorporation of neuroscience in peer-reviewed publications. See for example, in Kohl (2012), published in Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology: Section head: “Integration of olfactory/pheromonal conditioning into clinical psychology: The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) policy statement
The Public Policy Statement: Definition of Addiction (ASAM, 2011) represents a paradigm shift that may move the current practice of clinical psychology forward. It dictates the adoption and integration of neuroscientific principles that are required in order to understand differences between genetically predisposed brain disease, naturally occurring variations of behavioral development, and choice. These neuroscientific principles include focus on how sensory input influences behavior.”
Others can now continue to justifiably ignore neuroscientific principles as they always have. However, ignorance will not benefit those affected by mental illness.
James V. Kohl detailedl how quantized energy-dependent microRNA biogenesis links the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction to biophysically constrained viral latency and healthy longevity. Links from what organisms eat to the enzyme-dependent metabolism of food also link metabolic networks to microRNA-mediated genetic networks in the context of RNA interference. Drug therapies alter RNA interference by altering cell type differentiation in all cells of all individuals of all species. For comparison, during the past 26 years, Kohl has detailed how the chemistry of protein folding is biophysically constrained at every level of biological organization by conserved molecular mechanisms.