Word: regier
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...bloodlines. Their report, published in the journal Nature, conclusively linked cases of manic depression in an Amish family to genes in a specific region of human chromosome 11. "This is the first demonstration of a possible genetic basis for one of the major mental disorders," says Dr. Darrel Regier, director of the division of clinical research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). "The study ushers in a new era of psychiatric research...
...Stirling County study, completed in Nova Scotia in 1952, said that 57% of those interviewed had a disorder during a lifetime and 20% were in need of psychiatric attention at the time of the survey. "The most important thing is not what the overall rate is," says Dr. Darrel Regier, director of the NIMH survey, "but that we now know what the distribution of disorders is. This is establishing a baseline for future research...