Mental illness, debt - and a breathing space

Corticosteroids in Neurological and Mental Illness

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Mental Illness and Mental Retardation

To the Congress of the United States: It is my intention to send shortly to the Congress a message pertaining to this Nation's most urgent needs in the area of health improvement. But two health problems—because they are of such critical size and tragic impact, and because their susceptibility to public action is so much greater than the attention they have received-are deserving of a wholly ne...

Migration and mental illness

Human beings have moved from place to place since time immemorial. The reasons for and the duration of these migrations put extraordinary stress on individuals and their families. Such stress may not be related to an increase in mental illness for all conditions or to the same extent across all migrant groups. In this paper, we provide an overview of some observations in the field of migration ...

Creativity and mental illness.

In comparing genius to a pearl Lombroso sutmarised his beliefthat the cause of genius was a constitutional defect, a defect that commonly showed itselfas insanity in the genius or his family.' This "insanity" theory was supported by several later studies,24 but other studies supported an alternative theory (the "stud" theory) that genius represented the highest capacities ofthe race-a culminati...

Prolactin and mental illness.