Experts Identify Challenges in Managing Mental Disorders

Psychiatrists have identified six major challenges in the management of mental disorders in the country, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

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'Mental lesions' found in high-flying military pilots

Aviators piloting aircraft at very high altitudes for the military have "significantly more" brain lesions known as white matter hyperintensities, US Air Force medical researchers have found through MRI scanning.

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Does Mental Illness Really Exist?

It has the distinctly uncatchy, abbreviated title DSM-5, and is known to no one outside the world of mental health.

But, even before its publication a week on Wednesday, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, psychiatry’s dictionary of disorders, has triggered a bitter row that stretches across the Atlantic and has fuelled a profound debate about how modern society should treat mental disturbance.

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Priority for Mental Illness

Those of us who worked for years to address mental health challenges in the country should take heart in the effort President Obama is making to deal with the multiple challenges of mental health and psychiatric illness. 

One of five people has a psychiatric illness. Suicides are increasing around the country. Large numbers of veterans come home with post-traumatic stress disorder. 

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Treatments of Physical and Mental Health

Many days, the sheer weight of Iszurette Hunter's clinical depression becomes more than she can lift. She clings to her bed in her South Los Angeles home.

Important obligations slide away, including keeping appointments with doctors who are trying to control her asthma and high blood pressure.

"I don't have no desire," she explains.

As the nation seeks to extend healthcare coverage to millions of new and in many cases chronically ill patients, one of the great parallel challenges to controlling costs and improving delivery of care will be managing the mental health problems of people like Hunter.

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