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The multi-System world of Neurodevelopmental, Psychiatric & Addiction Disorders --- AND SYSTEMIC INADEQUATE CARE

6/22/2026

Summary

Research portrays a widening gap between:

(1) rapidly advancing knowledge that neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and addiction disorders arise from complex neuro‑immune, metabolic, and psychosocial systems; and

(2) mental health professions and service structures still organized around single diagnoses, single organs, and short, symptom‑focused encounters.

The central tension is that clinicians and systems “champion treatment” yet remain structurally and conceptually ill‑equipped to deliver truly integrated, whole‑body, transdiagnostic care that matches the multi‑system nature of these conditions

BOTTOM LINE:

We have substantively OUT-DATED understandings and treatments prevailing over the most problematic health problems in our society.

"If you think the brain is complicated --- wait until you get to the immune system"

6/15/2026

Val's Take/Conjecture

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio makes the point the mind is not just "Neural."

Rick was really the person that told me about MICROGLIA, and he was monitoring the research on that and thought it was ground-breaking and had enormous significance.

Additionally, as I was telling him about what I was learning about "IMMUNO-PSYCHIATRY" ---- one of the things he said was, "If you think the the brain is complicated --- wait until you get to the immune system."

Rick passed away March 9, 2022 from terminal lung cancer. He never smoked.

Is it just the IMMUNE SYSTEM --- well, it is playing a HUGE ROLE that we've largely missed historically -- it is COMPLICATED.

In addition --- ALL OF THIS IS CONNECTED --- to:

the MICROBIOME,
the ENDOCRINE SYSTEM,
the METABOLISM,
the larger CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (including the eyes),
BONES and CALCIUM -- including the TEETH
the Food Supply
Toxins --- Natural and Human-Made
the Social Determinants of Health
the "EXPOSOME"
the "LEGALOME"
Etc.

When we consider a PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH to CRIMINAL JUSTICE or HOMELESSNESS, we are talking about traditional MENTAL HEALTH --- BUT WE NEED TO CONSIDER SO MUCH MORE.

Getting DEVELOPMENTAL NEURO-IMMUNE MECHANISMS on the radar screens of all of us, not just the researchers, is critical.

The 92nd Street Y, New York

Neuroscientist & Author Antonio Damasio explains why the mind encompasses more than just the brain

The Halluci Nation
R.E.D.

Transitional/ Translational Justice Monday

The multi-System world of Neurodevelopmental, Psychiatric & Addiction Disorders --- AND SYSTEMIC INADEQUATE CARE

"If you think the brain is complicated --- wait until you get to the immune system"

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