Science is working hard to understand the causes of mental illness, but we're not far removed--if at all--from dismissals like "he's just acting crazy."
The language is elevated a bit above that at the Vollum Institute at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. Researchers there work to decode the way the brain works, in physical as well as mental health.
Marc Freeman joins later this year as its new director, he joins us for an overview of its work and his own research.
