Ed Bullmore in Podcasts
personEd Bullmore, a psychiatrist and professor at King's College London, specializes in brain research and inflammation's impact on mental health.
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And I think as we get close to understanding the causes of depression or anxiety, we'll discover that actually you can be depressed for many different reasons.
But unlike the way that disease is diagnosed in the rest of medicine, in psychiatry it's just enough to have the right list of symptoms for a particular diagnosis.
If you wanted to have a formal diagnosis of depression, let's say, or bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, that would mean basically walking through a checklist of symptoms.
in the history of medicine, where there was a real surge of new discoveries about diseases.
But have we discovered new diseases in the same way that, let's say, you know, going back 100 years, there was a kind of flurry of activity with people discovering all sorts of new infectious diseases, or what caused infectious diseases, cholera, tuberculosis, syphilis, and so on.
I mean, the American Psychiatric Association publishes periodically a manual, a diagnostic manual called DSM, which has been increasing in size ever since the 1950s when the first edition was published.
And then there are a whole other group of disorders, for example, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, that are sometimes categorized as neurodevelopmental rather than mental illness.
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