Assertion: mental disorder | /r/HasProperty | brain disorders
Facets:
value: very well
type: DEGREE
value: truly
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: While insisting that mental illnesses are in reality problems of living and not diseases, he also argued that if the conditions we call mental disorders are found to have an underlying neuropathology, then it would prove that mental disorders are actually brain disorders, and the whole notion of mental illness was erroneous and superfluous to begin with.
text: The discovery that all mental disorders are actually brain diseases would not eliminate the category "psychopathology," nor would it discount the use of or the appropriateness of the term "mental illness.
text: Because the definition of "disorder" includes, specifically, a disturbance of the mind (such as a mental disorder) it better fits what we now call mental illnesses, particularly before we understood that mental disorders are truly disorders of the brain (and not simply the "mind").
text: Szasz did not believe that mental disorders are brain disorders.
text: Mental disorders, as we currently understand them, can very well be brain disorders and, in fact, many of them are.