“…I have already mentioned the lack of interest from pharmaceutical companies in mental health research. In terms of public research funding per person affected, approximately 100 times more money is spent on cancer than on mental health; and in terms of philanthropy, the United States public donates five times more money to cancer than to mental health research, and for the United Kingdom public, the equivalent figure is a staggering 900 times more (Krystal et al 2016). So yes, we should do all of these studies.…”