Mental illness is among the most crippling healthcare crises of our time — not only because it is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, but because we still understand so little about how it works.
After years of almost stagnant psychopharmalogical research, though, two historic announcements by The Broad Institute on July 22 indicate that we may be at a turning point.
Researchers announced the largest-ever donation to psychiatric research ($650 million from Ted Stanley) and the publication of the largest-ever study of schizophrenia, an analysis of the genomes of 37,000 people with schizophrenia and 114,000 without.
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