dr. q'uaran kessler will -- dr. kessler will talk about the average person in the course of their life will experience a mental disorder will experience by age 14 and the average lifetime before first having symptoms and getting care is nine years in the united states of america of. the understanding of untreated mental depression can interrupt the moms ability to turn on those receptors in a baby's brain that is critical to developing that relationship and that can lead to behavioral problems and they conducted disorder which we understand at a scientific link their reports out about prevention and just out about depression and and young people and adults and this is a timely. the question of how we make the sale i like the metaphor of cocaine that car to that train. our message in this community, we have to get more clear about but a message to prevention and wellness and the centrality the surgeon general said mental health is the essential to overall health, that has to be what we focus on. >> there has been inte

dr. kessler is a graduate of amherst college, harvard medical school and university of chicago law school. rodale is the publisher. to find out more, visit rodale.com. .. >> host: we are here with one of the authors i am have admired my whole life, eduardo galeano. eduardo galeano board in the uruguay i mentioned to him i have had his books in my head for decades. one of the reasons i became involved in latin america and studies about latin america was because of your work spur it is really a great pleasure for me to be here with you. >> thank you. >> host: you have been in the states for a while? how long? >> guest: it 10 minutes. i just arrived. >> host: i know you are going to york. >> guest: and then other cities. >> my new baby. >> this is the book, at "mirrors" stories of almost everyone but of course, i checked out the spanish title title, [speaking spanish] which is a little different which means universal history, almost. >> guest: almost because if you say universal history it sounds so hollow and arrogant. my intention was to write an homage to the human adversity. without boun

dr. kessler is talking about and you think medically, morally, financially, it makes sense to prevent diseases in the first place, whether it be

dr. kessler, thank you for coming. i have a follow-up to your answer to the first question. how do you change the things you tell yourself into a rehab like i don't want to eat this because i will feel bad later on or something similar to something down here where that's the first thing you think of, where you are looking at a picture of chili cheese fries on the menu and you were not thinking i should eat something else because the chili cheese fries will make me feel bad leader and something like this which we all know kids say that gross, i don't want that, you know, that's more down here and it's fast. saying this which is good, the rehab is good up here but if you want something fast and not just okay i don't want the chili cheese fries because it will make me feel bad but i would rather eat a baked potato because i want that, i want that better here, not just more up here. >> so, the goal scientifically and i know this is not intellectual, it is to avoid that circuitry from being activated. that's the only way you're going to stop eating excessive eating is not to have

dr. ron kessler, professor of health care policy at harvard medical school. that is the most cited mental health researcher. dr. kessler's research deals broadly with the social determinants of mental health and illness, and let was mentioning, as we were chatting about, his work has been so successful, it has been repeatedly cited by people like tipper gore who cite all kinds of findings. finally, it is a pleasure to introduce the ceo of the american association for the advancement of science and executive publisher, what is probably the most prestigious journal in science, cleverly named science. dr. lester serve for 7 years, the national institute on drug abuse and serve for many years to the point where he was close to assisting the banquet on the executive conference for wall. the acting director of the national institute of mental health. alan has been a longtime colleague, his fingerprints was all over it. and it was a very strong orientation towards research. point sanjay gupta. >> thank you all for come in. [applause] >> i am delighted to be here. if