12/31/2006

MIND GERMS, PART ONE: LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE

by Janet A. Ginsburg

More than 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. suffers from a diagnosable mental illness in any given year. And American parents report that nearly 5% of their children –2.7 million kids -- have a severe emotional or behavioral disorder. Could infectious disease help explain what’s going on? Breakthroughs in diagnostics and epidemiology have unmasked a number of pathogens capable of causing neurological destruction and psychiatric illness....
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Thanks for your interest!

best,

Janet

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