Mental Disorders as Brain Disorders: Dr. Thomas Insel at TEDxCaltech
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The past 30 years have seen a decrease in deaths from medical causes such as leukemia and heart disease. Yet the rate of suicide has stayed the same. Given that 90% of suicides are related to mental illness, NIMH Director Dr. Thomas Insel proposes in a TED talk presentation at Caltech in January 2013 a new way to approach these conditions and to bring these numbers down.
