Massive project on African DNA sets out to close the knowledge gap on mental illness
IN July 2009, a woman brought her husband to the hospital where our colleagues work in western Kenya. She reported that for several years he had been behaving abnormally, sleeping poorly, hearing voices that no one else could hear, and believing that people were talking about him and plotting to harm him. LUKOYE ATWOLI, Professor of Psychiatry and Dean, Medical College East Africa, Aga Khan University, Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC) ANNE STEVENSON, Program Director, NeuroGAP-Psychosis Study, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health She was seeking help because he was no longer able to…