ADVISORY/Experts Available To Discuss Mental Health, Treatment in the United States.

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TOPIC: A study found that out of five nations in the Americas and Europe, the United States has the highest percentage of mentally ill people, but provides less treatment, according to an article by HealthScoutNews. The study was based on a survey of more than 23,000 people in Chile, Germany, Holland, the United States and Ontario, Canada. Nearly 30 percent of those surveyed in the United States reported some sort of emotional problems. Only a third of them who reported a serious mental illness received treatment. The United States also has the highest percentage of people reporting anxiety at 17 percent and drug and alcohol abuse at 11.5 percent.

EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story:

Daniel G. Amen, MD is a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist, brain imaging specialist, and the chief executive officer of The Amen Clinics in Newport Beach and Fairfield, California and Tacoma, Washington. He is a nationally recognized expert in the fields of neuropsychiatry, or the study of the brain and behavior, and attention deficit disorders. Dr. Amen has pioneered the use of brain imaging in clinical psychiatric practice. His clinics have the world's largest database of functional brain scans for neuropsychiatry. Dr. Amen is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior in the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine. His publications include: Preventing Alzheimer's Disease with Dr. William R. Shankle (Putnam scheduled 2004); Healing Anxiety and Depression (Putnam scheduled 2003); Healing The Hardware of the Soul (Free Press 2002); Healing ADD (Putnam 2001); Functional neuroimaging in clinical practice (written with Joseph C. Wu and H. Stefan Bracha) in The Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry Edited by Kaplan and Sadock (2000). He has also written multiple articles on Brain SPECT imaging in the assessment and treatment of mood disorders and behavioral medicine. 949-887-8315, [e-mail]; PR: Julie Wright, [e-mail]

Dr. James Willis Dilley, of the University of California, San Francisco, can share his expertise on psychiatry and mental health clinical services. 415-476-6430

Professor Miles Shore, of Harvard Medical School/Kennedy School of Government, is an expert on topics such as psychiatry, health policy and mental health. 617-496-1392

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