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So if we ever really want to understand the biological basis of psychiatric disorders, we need to pinpoint these locations in the brain where these chemicals act.
Dopamine plays a number of important functions in the brain, including in attention, arousal, reward, and
disorders
of the dopamine system have been linked to a number of mental
disorders
including drug abuse, Parkinson's disease, and ADHD.
And that's a bit reminiscent of ADHD, which has been linked to
disorders
of the dopamine system in humans.
So these results make me and my colleagues more convinced than ever that the brain is not a bag of chemical soup, and it's a mistake to try to treat complex psychiatric
disorders
just by changing the flavor of the soup.
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.
If we can do that, we may be able to cure these
disorders
without the unpleasant side effects, putting the oil back in our mental engines, just where it's needed.
There's a long list of
disorders
that contribute, and as I mentioned before, often early in life.
But it's not just the mortality from these
disorders.
If you look at disability, as measured by the World Health Organization with something they call the Disability Adjusted Life Years, it's kind of a metric that nobody would think of except an economist, except it's one way of trying to capture what is lost in terms of disability from medical causes, and as you can see, virtually 30 percent of all disability from all medical causes can be attributed to mental disorders, neuropsychiatric syndromes.
What drives the disability for these
disorders
like schizophrenia and bipolar and depression?
About one in five people will suffer from one of these
disorders
in the course of their lifetime.
These are, indeed, the chronic
disorders
of young people.
My job is to actually make sure that we make progress on all of these
disorders.
What I've been talking to you about so far is mental disorders, diseases of the mind.
That's actually becoming a rather unpopular term these days, and people feel that, for whatever reason, it's politically better to use the term behavioral
disorders
and to talk about these as
disorders
of behavior.
They are
disorders
of behavior, and they are
disorders
of the mind.
But what I want to suggest to you is that both of those terms, which have been in play for a century or more, are actually now impediments to progress, that what we need conceptually to make progress here is to rethink these
disorders
as brain
disorders.
Now, already in the case of the brain
disorders
that I've been talking to you about, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, while we don't have an in-depth understanding of how they are abnormally processed or what the brain is doing in these illnesses, we have been able to already identify some of the connectional differences, or some of the ways in which the circuitry is different for people who have these
disorders.
The important piece here is that as you begin to look at people who have these disorders, the one in five of us who struggle in some way, you find that there's a lot of variation in the way that the brain is wired, but there are some predictable patterns, and those patterns are risk factors for developing one of these
disorders.
It's a little different than the way we think about brain
disorders
like Huntington's or Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease where you have a bombed-out part of your cortex.
Well first because, for brain disorders, behavior is the last thing to change.
That is precisely what we do today when we decide that everybody with one of these brain disorders, brain circuit disorders, has a behavioral disorder.
Now, about a hundred thousand patients in the world have received deep brain stimulation, and I'm going to show you some examples of using deep brain stimulation to treat
disorders
of movement,
disorders
of mood and
disorders
of cognition.
We're going to see electrodes being placed for many
disorders
of the brain.
However, some long-term conditions like respiratory disorders, gastrointestinal problems, and many others can overpower fatigue.
In addition to sensory deprivation, recreational and therapeutic drugs, conditions like epilepsy and narcolepsy, and psychiatric
disorders
like schizophrenia, are a few of the many known causes of hallucinations, and we’re still finding new ones.
And this is a radically new concept that may apply to other neurological disorders, what I termed "personalized neuroprosthetics," where by sensing and stimulating neural interfaces, I implanted throughout the nervous system, in the brain, in the spinal cord, even in peripheral nerves, based on patient-specific impairments.
Diabetes is one of the most common hormonal disorders, occurring when the pancreas secretes too little insulin, a hormone that manages blood sugar levels.
Several long-term studies have shown that girls who diet in their early teenage years are three times more likely to become overweight five years later, even if they started at a normal weight, and all of these studies found that the same factors that predicted weight gain also predicted the development of eating
disorders.
At worst, they ruin lives: Weight obsession leads to eating disorders, especially in young kids.
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