Psychiatry
F. K. Goodwin
National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md.
Eleven percent of the population seek mental health services during a given
year, with a majority seeking some care from nonpsychiatrist physicians or
hospital emergency departments. Some behavioral and neuropsychiatric
problems of childhood may be mediated through antineuronal antibodies that
arise in response to infection by group A beta-hemolytic streptococci.
