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Bivariate analyses showed that the incidence of violence was higher for people with severe mental illness, but only significantly so for those with co-occurring substance abuse and/or dependence. Multivariate analyses revealed that severe mental illness alone did not predict future violence; it was associated instead with historical (past violence, juvenile detention, physical abuse, parental arrest record), clinical (substance abuse, perceived threats), dispositional (age, sex, income), and contextual (recent divorce, unemployment, victimization) factors. Most of these factors were endorsed more often by subjects with severe mental illness.

JAMA Network | JAMA Psychiatry | the Intricate Link Between Violence and Mental Disorder:  Results From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions

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Their argument, in essence, is that the *absence* of a correlation is itself evidence for atypical GABA functioning.

GABA, Autism, and the Correlation That Wasn’t There | DrBrocktagon

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Die Einigkeit hinsichtlich der Kolonialpolitik war in der Weimarer Republik vermutlich größer als vor dem Weltkrieg und reichte über parteipolitische Grenzen hinweg.

Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte

Sebastian Conrad

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