Global Burden of Disease

Flanking the rapid development of psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Lewis Judd, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 1987 to 1990, created the psychiatric marketing strategy, "Decade of the Brain," which was signed into United States law by Presidential Proclamation. Since then, terms like "treatable brain disorder," "no-fault brain disease" and "chemical imbalance in the brain" have been marketed, successfully grouping legitimate brain disorders, such as Alzheimer’s, spinal cord injury and stroke, with "depression" and "schizophrenia," conditions that cannot be medically confirmed.

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