Abstract

Biological research has produced major advances in our understanding of our bodies and, where systems go wrong, is producing remedies to address these, but it has yet to do the same for the mind. This is because no causative biological evidence has been found for the major mental disorders in contrast to the wealth of psychosocial findings. This disparity in regard and resource needs to be addressed.

Highlights

  • Biological research has produced major advances in our understanding of our bodies and, where systems go wrong, is producing remedies to address these, but it has yet to do the same for the mind. This is because no causative biological evidence has been found for the major mental disorders in contrast to the wealth of psychosocial findings

  • It is still not possible to cite a single neuroscience or genetic finding that has been of use to the practicing psychiatrist in managing these illnesses despite attempts to suggest the contrary.[1]

  • Been a lack of funding for severe mental illness compared with neurological disorders? That may be the case and, for example, conflation by the Medical Research Council’s research funding into ‘mental and neurological disorders’ initially concealed this relative discrepancy.[4]. Is this disparity really sufficient to account for the lack of progress in finding mechanisms of mental disorders[5] or effective interventions? There has been a very significant amount of such neuroscience and genetic research into mental disorders since ‘the Decade of the Brain’, the 1990s, came and went

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Introduction

This is because no causative biological evidence has been found for the major mental disorders in contrast to the wealth of psychosocial findings. Keywords Psychosocial; neuroscience; research; mental disorder; mental health services.

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