Our staff will also be on hand, along with some of our Committee, to answer your questions. Our field remains exciting as we hover at the crossroads of new developments in neurosciences. At the same time research continues to apply these new findings to understanding mind and how people change and develop. While mental health is essential to leading to healthy life, Americans assign little priority to preventing mental illness and promoting mental health. In fact, all mental illnesses ranks second in the burden of disease in established market economies, the first being cardiovascular disorders.
Mental illnesses are biological conditions wherein treatment exists.
However, not too many people have access to it. About one in five Americans experience a mental illness during their life span no one is immune. These mental health problems appear in families of all social classes and of all backgrounds, although there are some who appear to be at greater risk than others. Training takes place at research-intensive departments of psychiatry in major U.S. medical schools and at other appropriate sites. A research mentor at the site is responsible for overseeing the applicant's research training experience.