A revolution in mental health

• Autores: Peter Aldhous, Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2916, 2013, págs. 8-9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 29 Apr, Thomas Insel, director of world's biggest funding agency for research into mental illness, advocated a major shift away from categorizing psychiatric disorders according to a person's symptoms. This approach has given people labels like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression. Insel, who heads the US National Institute of Mental Health, wants mental disorders to be diagnosed more objectively using a combination of genetics, brain scans that show abnormal patterns of activity, and cognitive testing.