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Toward a new understanding of mental illness - Thomas Insel

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Today, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a crucial reframing. (Filmed at TEDxCaltech.)

In the brain scans from the National Institute of Mental Health on children with very early onset schizophrenia, what can be noted about gray matter?

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