Should Mental Illness Be Called Brain Disease
Should mental illness be called “brain disease” instead? And, if so, why? In this article, we’ll look at this question from several different points of view: What are the advantages of calling mental illness a “brain disease”? Would it be accurate to call it brain disease? Are mental illnesses simply physical diseases that strike the brain? Are there reasons not to call mental illness a brain disease? What do the experts have to say about this?