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People survive because of the local doctors, nurses and aid workers who are from the very heart of the affected community, the people who dare to work where others can't or won't.

The World Health Organization estimates that there are nearly four to five hundred million people living on our tiny planet who are affected by a mental illness.

Now some of you here look a bit astonished by that number, but consider for a moment the incredible diversity of mental illnesses, from autism and intellectual disability in childhood, through to depression and anxiety, substance misuse and psychosis in adulthood, all the way through to dementia in old age, and I'm pretty sure that each and every one us present here today can think of at least one person, at least one person, who's affected by mental illness in our most intimate social networks.

But beyond the staggering numbers, what's truly important from a global health point of view, what's truly worrying from a global health point of view, is that the vast majority of these affected individuals do not receive the care that we know can transform their lives, and remember, we do have robust evidence that a range of interventions, medicines, psychological interventions, and social interventions, can make a vast difference.

And yet, even in the best-resourced countries, for example here in Europe, roughly 50 percent of affected people don't receive these interventions.

It isn't surprising, then, that if you should speak to anyone affected by a mental illness, the chances are that you will hear stories of hidden suffering, shame and discrimination in nearly every sector of their lives.

It's this injustice that has really driven my mission to try to do a little bit to transform the lives of people affected by mental illness, and a particularly critical action that I focused on is to bridge the gulf between the knowledge we have that can transform lives, the knowledge of effective treatments, and how we actually use that knowledge in the everyday world.

Indeed, to implement the slogan of Health for All, we will need to involve all in that particular journey, and in the case of mental health, in particular we would need to involve people who are affected by mental illness and their caregivers.

It is for this reason that, some years ago, the Movement for Global Mental Health was founded as a sort of a virtual platform upon which professionals like myself and people affected by mental illness could stand together, shoulder-to-shoulder, and advocate for the rights of people with mental illness to receive the care that we know can transform their lives, and to live a life with dignity.

This is affected massively by reverberation time, how reverberant a room is.

It's not just the children who are affected, though.

This is what's affected.

So that's about 50,000 people affected.

So I start to think a lot of knowledge work is going to be affected by this.

There are about three and a half million people who drive trucks for a living in the United States; I think some of them are going to be affected by this technology.

Infrastructure is going to be affected.

Interestingly enough, it's not only tradies that are affected by mental health or anxiety or depression or suicide.

Well, normally, a charity starts with the cause, and someone that is directly affected by a cause.

We gave people this horrible-tasting drink that affected their tryptophan levels.

Well, in both cases, the thing that is construed as being affected is expressed as the direct object, the noun after the verb.

How then can we ensure that, in our search for the cure, we do not take an unfair advantage of those who are already most affected by the pandemic?

We thought that maybe nitric oxide affected cell death, and how cells survive, and their resistance to other things.

You'd be surprised how kids are affected by this.

It was cool, and they just shared the stories about how this affected them and how they used to plant with their mother and their grandmother, and it was just cool to see how this changed them, if it was only for that one moment.

There are repositories where you can just pick up the phone and order hundreds of vials of flies of different mutants and screen them in your assay and then find out what gene is affected in the mutation.

So doing the screen, we discovered one mutant that took much longer than normal to calm down after the air puffs, and when we examined the gene that was affected in this mutation, it turned out to encode a dopamine receptor.

What we need to do is to use our ingenuity and our scientific knowledge to try to design a new generation of treatments that are targeted to specific neurons and specific regions of the brain that are affected in particular psychiatric disorders.

Another example that may have affected many of you in this audience is, you may remember a couple of years ago, all the planes west of the Mississippi were grounded because a single routing card in Salt Lake City had a bug in it.

And instead of telling you more about it, I'm going to invite one of them, Sam Berns from Boston, who's here this morning, to come up on the stage and tell us about his experience as a child affected with progeria.

So Sam, why don't you tell these folks what it's like being affected with this condition called progeria?

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