May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so to continue with our trend of investigating the underpinnings of the brain, we are dedicating this month’s series to the origins and treatments of mental illness. Due in part to the innate complexity of the human brain, the roots of mental illness can be extraordinarily complicated to untangle. Many psychologists use what is known as a biopsychosocial approach to understanding mental health. This approach acknowledges that mental illness emerges from an interconnected web of biological, psychological, and social factors. Reducing any mental illness to simply a matter of faulty neurochemistry, a product of…
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