"A new large scale research study published in American Journal of Psychiatry has found that despite a greater embrace by the public of neurobiological explanations for depression (and other mental illnesses) there has been no decrease in prejudice and discrmiination [sic] towards people who suffer from them."

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"in all of the surveys and across all vignette conditions, holding a neurobiological conception of mental illness either was unrelated to stigma or tended to increase the odds of a stigmatizing reaction"

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...ression-stigma