China is a Major Mental Health research leader

​with ground-breaking work in understanding the neuro-Immune connection to psychiatric disorders.

​Val's Take/Conjecture

• ​​​China got into the Mental Health game like everyone else --- THE HARD WAY.
• With regard to DSM controversies, China doesn't have a dog in that fight.
  • ​Although many Chinese scientific papers will note DSM categories are not valid.
    • ​BUT who first said that --- the US' National Institute of Mental Health over a decade ago.
• Ironically, because China came so late to the Mental Health game, the political interests do not appear as entrenched.

• There is a high number of papers coming out of China and around the world (including the US) elucidating excruciatingly complex biology involving Neuro-Developmental and Psychiatric Disorders.​​

• Are these new understandings any more widely known in China than they are in the US --- probably not.

​Extracellular ATP Is a Homeostatic Messenger That Mediates Cell-Cell Communication in Physiological Processes and Psychiatric Diseases  (2025)

​Causal Relationships Between Retinal Diseases and Psychiatric Disorders Have Implications for Precision Psychiatry (2025)

​The prevalence and associated disability burden of mental disorders in children and adolescents in China: a systematic analysis of data from the Global Burden of Disease Study  (2025)

​"Mental disorders are the leading causes of disability in children and adolescents in China, and the disease burden varies geographically.

"Careful planning of health services, including consideration of the local situation, is needed."

​​Maternal natural killer cells drive neuroimmune disorders in offspring through aberrant secretion of extracellular granzyme B  (2025)

​From Clinic to Mechanisms: Multi-Omics Provide New Insights into Cerebrospinal Fluid Metabolites and the Spectrum of Psychiatric Disorders  (2025)