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Huge Global Burden Of Neuropsychiatric Disorders among 10 To 24 Year-Olds
June 7, 2011 by NewsBot
Unipolar depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and alcohol use are among the neuropsychiatric disorders that represent 45% of the disease burden among teenagers and young adults worldwide. Unfortunately, these disorders are glaringly absent from too many health programs, researchers from the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, reported in the medical journal The Lancet...


