Posted by ihatedrugs1 on January 27, 2014, at 23:49:42
In reply to Re: Mental Disorders as Brain Disorders, posted by alexandra_k on January 27, 2014, at 23:44:25
> validation of what?
"Deaths from medical causes such as leukemia and heart disease have decreased over the past 30 years. The same cannot be said of the suicide rate, which has remained the same. A vast majority of suicides90 percentare related to mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia.
Insel believes part of the problem is that mental illness is referred to either as a mental or behavioral disorder. We need to think of these as brain disorders, he said, adding that for these brain disorders, behavior is the last thing to change."
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