CAS PS 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cerebral Cortex, Proprioception, Phineas Gage
3 Jan 2017
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You are likely to encounter people with psychiatric disorders in your personal and professional lives (and may end up with a diagnosis yourself. Who calculates that of all the years of living with a disability for all of the people in the world, mental illnesses account for 30%. Of the top ten causes of disability in the world, 4 are mental illnesses. Mental disorders are the leading cause of disability in the u. s. and canada for ages 18-44. The us has the highest rate of psychiatric disorder, according to an international study collecting data in. The us rate is 26% of the population in a given year, and the us consistently has among the highest rates for all disorders (eca study). Serious disorders are those that interfere with a person"s ability to carry out normal social roles, like. Worker or student. estimates of severe disorders run between one-half of 1% and nearly 8%.
