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Healthy Minds Across America is "an unprecedented event, a day of free public forums will take place at 48 locations around the United States and in Canada - all on Sunday, September 14 - at which some of the greatest minds and talents in neuropsychiatric research will report on the state of mental health research and how breakthroughs over the last 20 years have led to progress and hope, while uncovering new challenges." ⁽¹⁾

These forums are being put on by NARSAD which is the largest donor-supported organization in the world that supports research on brain and behavior disorders. (They have a wonderful YouTube video educating the public about the value of psychiatric research.)

"Each of the Healthy Minds Across America forums will feature presentations by three or more research experts who will cover a wide range of topics and disorder areas, such as:

• Genetics of mental illness: The role genes play in risk for depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and what we're learning from new studies of the human genome;


• Adolescent mental health: Identifying teens at risk for anxiety, depression and schizophrenia;


• Autism: Possible causes of autism and personalized treatment approaches;


• PTSD in our communities: The possibility of recovering from traumatic events;


• Depression: Risk factors for depression across the life cycle, the safety of antidepressant medications, and new therapies such as deep brain stimulation;


• The biological basis of addiction: The biology and brain circuitry of addiction;


• New treatment frontiers: Potential treatments for schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder;


• Improving pharmaceutical treatments: Developing more effective and safer drug treatments; and


• Quality of life for those affected: Prospects for preventing and recovering from mental illness."⁽¹⁾
  
  

So, if you don't have any plans for September 14, please check to see if there is a local forum where you can hear about the latest scientific advances in the fight to conquer mental illness.

You can attend the forums for free, but you need to RSVP.