The Seed of Mental Illness Might Be Planted Before Birth

Investigating the link between the placenta and schizophrenia

The Galvins, Don and Mimi and their twelve children, in the late 1960s. (Image courtesy of the Galvin family.)

If you’re feeling nostalgic, it’s easy to smile at the memory of the blinding promise of the Human Genome Project — that highly publicized effort in the 1990s to map out and understand the structure, organization, and function of every single human gene. This was…