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Table 1.
The Four Causes of Mental Illness under Neurogenetic Logic
| Inherent Health | Inherent Illness | |
|---|---|---|
| Form (formal cause) | Disease course | Genotype and risk factors |
| Substrate (material cause) | Healthy, robust body | Disease phenotype (e.g. brain patterns) |
| Change agent (efficient cause) | Bacteria or viruses | Summation of symptoms into syndrome |
| Therapeutic response | Medicine that helps the body counteract the agent | Pharmaceutical modulation back to threshold |
| Purpose (final cause) | Health | Chronically ill body |
| Purpose of therapy | Cure | Maintenance of "normalcy" |
