The value of mental illness

Corticosteroids in Neurological and Mental Illness

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Value-Based Decision Making in Mental Illness: A Meta-Analysis

In this study, we assessed value-based decision making in individuals diagnosed with mental illness. Two metaanalyses were conducted of studies that used the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) to assess value-based decision making. In the first meta-analysis (63 studies, combined N = 4,978), we compared IGT performance in healthy populations and populations with mental illness. In the second meta-analysi...

The mental illness spectrum.

There exists a growing argument in favour of a more dimensional approach to the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric patients. This encompasses first the idea of a spectrum of symptoms correlating to severity within a single disorder, and secondly, the idea of spectra of different disorders sharing overlapping collections of symptoms. Here we consider the issue in light of specific clinical e...

The Cost of Mental Illness

The Myth of Mental Illness

Mental Illness. By Thomas S. Szasz. {Seeker & Warburg, ̂ s\t Over a century and a half ago Pinel removed the chains from the insane , Paris, John Conolly in England introduced more humane methods of treatment them, and since the days of Charcot, Kraepelin and Freud, mental illness has W' the subject of scientific enquiry like other illnesses. The author of The Myth of Mental Illness puts forward...