And sleep disorders.

Psych... mental disorders.

He's got adrenal crisis. He's got Addison's disease. What?

They are disorders of behavior, and they are disorders of the mind.

Wednesday night is eating disorders.

Fair enough, they are disorders of behavior and they are disorders of the mind.

And the adrenal glands make androgens, which are a masculinizing hormone.

They mainly deal with neurological disorders,

Females, like males, have in our bodies something called the adrenal glands.

And it lists currently 374 mental disorders.

What drives the disability for these disorders

The adrenal glands hemorrhage, the brain goes into shutdown, then the major organs.

That what we need conceptually to make a progress here is to rethink these disorders as brain disorders.

What he had was an extreme form of a condition called congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

And it's not just the mortality from these disorders.

These are indeed the chronic disorders of young people.

But it's not just the mortality from these disorders.

These are, indeed, the chronic disorders of young people.

As part of a clinical trial for sleep disorders.

Depression, there's a great approach to that in mood disorders.

Let's flip the tables now and consider Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Now, about a hundred thousand patients in the world have received deep brain stimulation, and I'm going to show you some examples of using deep brain stimulation to treat disorders of movement, disorders of mood and disorders of cognition.

When we decide that everybody with one of these brain disorders, brain circuit disorders, has a behavioral disorder we wait until the behavior becomes manifest.

That is precisely what we do today when we decide that everybody with one of these brain disorders, brain circuit disorders, has a behavioral disorder.

And things like, how the brain miss wires in mental disorders.

Or that could be good clinical targets for treating brain disorders.

Those patterns are risk factors for developing one of these disorders.

And people feel that, for whatever the reason, it's politically better to use the term behavioral disorders , and to talk about these as disorders of behavior.

Well, autism is the most strongly genetic condition of all developmental disorders.

It's a little different than the way we think about brain disorders

It's a little different than the way we think about brain disorders

and has been linked with disorders of the nervous system and bowels.

Despite the fact that each and every one of these disorders originates in the brain, most of these disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of observable behavior.

And also these are signals that go awry in disorders such as addiction.

We're going to see electrodes being placed for many disorders of the brain.

Or that eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses?

What drives disability for these disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and depression?

Well first because for brain disorders, behavior is the last thing to change.

Well first because, for brain disorders, behavior is the last thing to change.

And now, 14 of the disorders are treatable, two of them actually curable.

Just name your parental anxieties drugs, alcohol, smoking, teen pregnancy, eating disorders, depression.

So I'm very passionate about this research and I really want to continue it and expand it to more disorders besides asthma, more respiratory disorders, as well as more pollutants.

It's one of the cells that seems to be atrophied in disorders like schizophrenia.

like diabetes, and lupus, and asthma, and certain neurological disorders, Huntington's and Alzheimer's diseases.

And you know, this is a country that over diagnoses certain mental disorders hugely.