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Brain Changes from Child Abuse Tied to Adult Mental Illness, Sexual Problems | Psych Ce... - 0 views

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    Different types of childhood abuse can increase the risk of mental illness as well as sexual dysfunction, experts say, but the biological mechanism by which this occurs has been unknown.
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Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness | Talk Video | TED.com - 0 views

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    oday, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a crucial reframing: for us to stop thinking about "mental disorders" and start understanding them as "brain disorders.
  • John Crane on 09 Jul 14
     
    oday, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a crucial reframing: for us to stop thinking about "mental disorders" and start understanding them as "brain disorders.
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Psychiatrists under fire in mental health battle | Society | The Observer - 0 views

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    British Psychological Society to launch attack on rival profession, casting doubt on biomedical model of mental illness
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'Grief and anxiety are not mental illnesses' - 0 views

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    The forthcoming edition of an American psychiatric manual will increase the number of people in the general population diagnosed with a mental illness - but what they need is help and understanding, not labels and medication.
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Ruby Wax: What's so funny about mental illness? - 0 views

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    Diseases of the body garner sympathy, says comedian Ruby Wax - except those of the brain. Why is that? With dazzling energy and humor, Wax, diagnosed a decade ago with clinical depression, urges us to put an end to the stigma of mental illness.
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BBC News - How Prozac entered the lexicon - 0 views

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    Twenty-five years after Prozac was introduced, the name has entered the cultural lexicon and helped define how people think of mental illness.
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Feeding Minds - 0 views

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    The impact of food on mental health
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