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Mental illness. in 1951, a doctor coined the phrase, drake demania, a condition that caused slaves to try to escape. the cause in most of the cases that induces the negro to run away from service is much more of a disease of the mind and much more curable as a general rule. in the 1960s, there were scientists who suggested that participants in race riots had some kind of brain dysfunction, and they conducted experiments by burning out small areas of cells in their patients brains. and in 1967, t...

Of contributing factor, you say multifactorial. and why is it. does it necessarily prove we have an increase in cases. >> elizabeth, the centers for disease control told me we dont know it is an increase in cases. it may be we are better at finding it. what is autism? we dont know what the cause of it is yet. it is a brain dysfunction that occurs and usually interfers with the ability of children to communicate and say what is on their mind. they may be zoned out or not meet your glance and cert...

Realize she wasnt at least in the case of her son. >> i dont know how responsible she actually was. i dont know that she actually got the bigger picture of what was going on for this child. theres no way to explain how a kid can have a safe in his room for his guns, all this ammunition, how all this stuff coming out right now, which is so disturbing, how does that go overlooked? im not trying to place the blame on anyone, but what i am saying is right now in our country theres a huge debate, abo...

Loved ones in the military. what are you asking them to do? >> we are asking them to be advocates, to understand the signature wound of the war is brain injury. we need to be putting the resources necessary to combat that wound, commensurate with the demand of taking care of all of our soldiers, our person heros. >> the brain is the final frontier of bio medical research. the brain disorders that affect mental function and behavior have historically been neglected, been a stepchild of medicine. ...