"One scientific-sounding synonym for 'bad' is 'imbalanced,' right? So when psychiatrists say, 'Depression is caused by a chemical imbalance,' it’s basically true by definition."
It really depends what the people writing and reading the papers understand by the term chemical imbalance. My sense is that it's something a fair bit more specific than just 'bad'.
"One scientific-sounding synonym for 'bad' is 'imbalanced,' right? So when psychiatrists say, 'Depression is caused by a chemical imbalance,' it’s basically true by definition."
It really depends what the people writing and reading the papers understand by the term chemical imbalance. My sense is that it's something a fair bit more specific than just 'bad'.
"One scientific-sounding synonym for 'bad' is 'imbalanced,' right? So when psychiatrists say, 'Depression is caused by a chemical imbalance,' it’s basically true by definition."
It really depends what the people writing and reading the papers understand by the term chemical imbalance. My sense is that it's something a fair bit more specific than just 'bad'.