Brain disorders cost the most overall but attract the least research funding

There needs to be more funding for research into neurological and psychiatric disorders, say the authors of a study into the costs of such disorders. The study found that “for every £1m (€1.2m; $1.5m) of health and social care costs attributable to each disease, cancer received £129 269 in research funding, coronary heart disease received £73 153, stroke received £8745, and dementia received just £4882.”1 Barbara Sahakian, president of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, and principal investigator for the study, said at a press briefing, “No group of chronic diseases costs the world more than brain disorders, with one third of the adult population suffering from a mental disorder …