Difficulties and advances in diagnosing psychiatric disorders
Learn about the difficulties and advances in diagnosing psychiatric (mental) disorders.
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RICK MYERS: It's really hard to define exactly what someone has, and many people who have individuals in their family are often frustrated because they don't really know what the diagnosis is. The diagnoses are difficult. This also makes it difficult to determine what the root causes are. And that's really what we want to do in this research, is to figure out why this has happened to someone. And it--and that's really the first step towards figuring out how to do something about it, to try to prevent it or to treat it.
NEIL LAMB: The brain is an incredibly complex and beautiful structure shaped by our genetics, the world around us, and the constantly changing environment. I'm hopeful and--and optimistic and encouraged that the new genome-wide approaches that we are now studying, here at HudsonAlpha and around the world, will begin to shed light on this--on this amazing mystery. But it will take time, patience, and a lot of funding in order to really unravel those secrets.
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RICK MYERS: It's really hard to define exactly what someone has, and many people who have individuals in their family are often frustrated because they don't really know what the diagnosis is. The diagnoses are difficult. This also makes it difficult to determine what the root causes are. And that's really what we want to do in this research, is to figure out why this has happened to someone. And it--and that's really the first step towards figuring out how to do something about it, to try to prevent it or to treat it.
NEIL LAMB: The brain is an incredibly complex and beautiful structure shaped by our genetics, the world around us, and the constantly changing environment. I'm hopeful and--and optimistic and encouraged that the new genome-wide approaches that we are now studying, here at HudsonAlpha and around the world, will begin to shed light on this--on this amazing mystery. But it will take time, patience, and a lot of funding in order to really unravel those secrets.
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