ill. we're pleased and honored to have with us to distinguished authors. their current books on mental illness are shaping public discussion. also, the assistant secretary for mental health and substance abuse its. she is playing a key role in shaping public policy. the is worth pointing out that the question of the right role for government into supporting the care and treatment of the mentally ill is one that has long vexed us as a nation. consider the case of the educator who in the 1930's began to visit residents -- presence -- prisons. sadly and tragically, the same can be said about the situation today. even as the population of the rikers island jail here in new york city as declined, the percentage of the population that is mentally ill there has increased. she would be distressed to know that the atlantic referred to cook county jail and chicago as the nations largest mental health hospital. americans who suffer from conditions such as schizophrenia have no access to help. many ca

, those patients who have got some kind of life threatening illness. the pa rkts threatening illness. they're the parkts they're focussing on. behind me we have call takers and ambulance dispatchers dealing with thousands of calls every day. it's an unprecedented level of pressure. 30% rise in calls. on boxing day alone, they took 7,000 999 and 111 calls. you might have to get yourself to hospital. what they say initially, if you want to call an ambulance, think about perhaps using a pharmacist or contacting your gp or dialling 111 in the first instance. another problem they've had here is the paramedics are dealing with a lot of winter illnesses. they're closing wards in hospitals but they're also taking out the paramedics because they're ill. so ina way, paramedics because they're ill. so in a way, it's been a perfect storm. now this ambulance trust is under extreme pressure. sharon, thank you. strong winds of up to 80mph are expected to hit parts of the uk tonight. storm eleanor will reach the country. the met office has upgraded the threat level fr

don't get ill i'd be more worried. don't getiu get ill i'd be more worried. seems reasonable. it is nanny statism i can kind of agree with, to be honest. it will be on present conditions and that can cause problems this weekend. —— rather on present conditions. yes, and if your operation has been cancelled... but people get sick, ultimately, they need somewhere to 90, ultimately, they need somewhere to go, but if they are encouraging people to self remedy and stay at home, rather than soldiering on, and no one will turn up for work on monday. i was told not to get ill so i don't want anyone else to get ill. nip early symptoms in the bud. i don't think i've ever been successful at doing that. everyone will be googling the old wives tales to find out the answers. now, 16 and i7, to find out the answers. now, 16 and 17, the times, extracts from the book fire and fury, by michael wolff, after his infiltration of the west wing to find out what life has been like inside the white house with donald trump and his first president. take a shower, steve bannon, you have

"personality types are not mental illness."elena, nobody here is trying to break it all down and say that's what we're dealing with in the current situation. look, i thought immediately as this debate was ensuing in the last couple of days of this book i read a couple years ago, and i think the doctor explained it quite well. i'm personally unsettled with the conversation that's been taking place publicly in the last couple of days. i'm having it in an historical context about some of those who served us like lincoln and roosevelt and churchill and kennedy. one more, i think it's a twitter comment. "i prefer my leaders to be relatively free of mental illness." jetpackevin, it might depend whether it's a time of crisis or stability. that's the thesis of dr. ghaemi's book. >>> up ahead, as soon as california legalized pot, long-time opponent of the drug attorney general jeff sessions empowered u.s. attorneys to start enforcing the federal restrictions. how's this gonna end? well, ron paul is here and he thinks he has a solution.

essentially when a caregiver will fabricate an illness or induce an illness in their child in ordermedical care. >> reporter: dr. jamie kofman is a board certified child abuse pediatrician. >> it's abuse on the child. but it's to obtain attention or some kind of secondary gain for themselves. >> reporter: the fabricated illnesses and the abuse that went with the lies would come to light when deedee is stabbed to death, turning the once local hero into an unlikely suspect in her mother's murder. jipsy was born perfectly healthy, says her father rob blanchard. after his relationship with deedee fell apart, he began hearing that his daughter was sick. >> jipsy was probably 7, 8 years old. in a wheelchair now, needs a feeding tube. >> reporter: 2005, hurricane katrina. >> in some areas the water is now 20 feet deep -- >> reporter: they were evacuated from slidell, louisiana, to springfield, missouri, where they pieced together a life. largely from donations, disability payments, and child support from gypsy's dad. >> the blanchards moved into that house built by habitat for humanity. a

in south africa they said if you oppose the partite you must be mentally ill in china they locked up dissidents i just don't want to see the psychiatry zation of political difference it's bad enough that we. criminalization of political differences in leicester is a very very very hard evidence twenty fifth amendment tight in capacity i just don't believe that's a proper subject for an independent or special counsel to investigate who is you what do you think. i don't think pass without the proper subject of robber muller's of asked a geisha and they twenty fifth amendment doesn't siad i find that suggest a mayor that the justice department has a role other than that that the attorney general is of course a member the cabinet and the vice president the cabinet ordinarily twenty fifth amendment and appropriate circumstances and then the matter goes to the house and the senate i do file that. you know the twenty fifth amendment which was adopted in the late sixty's and the nuclear age does contemplate the risk and as a stream way high risk in some circumstances that you could have some

jane: ken remembers the happy times before his wife of 40 years succumbed to mental illness. >> this is a picture of our first dance together as husband and wife. jane: he is still trying to make sense of the personality changes that led to her suicide just a few months ago. he hopes donating her brain to research will help scientists find the answers. >> there is so much that needs to be known about people who have psychiatric illnesses and what is going on with the brain that research is the only way, and i hope they can find information that we can prevent something like this happening that people don't have to go through not only what we went through but are currently going through. jane: this is where paula's brain is being studied, the world's largest brain bank, dedicated to finding biological causes for mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. >> i think we are understanding, these are illnesses that have a physical, chemical, molecular, structural basis. i think we take it away from being either a lack of character, a defect in

i prefer my leaders to be relatively free of mental illness.etpackevin, it might depend on whether it's a time of crisis or stability. because that's the thesis of the book. >>> up ahead, soon california legalized pot longtime opponent of the drug attorney general jeff sessions empowered u.s. attorneys to start enforcing federal restrictions. how's this going to end? well, rand paul is here and he thinks he has a solution. >> mr. president, why don't you fire this guy? why don't you fire jeff sessions? there are two types of people in the world. those who fear the future... and those who embrace it. the future is for the unafraid. ♪ all because of you ♪ ♪ oh, it's actually... sfx: (short balloon squeal) it's ver... sfx: (balloon squeals) ok can we... sfx: (balloon squeals) goodbye! oof, that milk in your coffee was messing with you, wasn't it? try lactaid, it's real milk, without that annoying lactose. good right? yeah. lactaid. the milk that doesn't mess with you. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jel

of the united states senate and a real paragon of stability and virtue was declared to be mentally ill by over a thousand psychiatrist when he was running against lyndon johnson who himself was not a paragon of stability and of course was a great civil rights president but got us into a very difficult war so i three much worry about the politicization of mental illness and mary creating a pathology out of the political disagreements we have to stay away from that though we have to be careful to make sure that no person who has access to the nuclear trigger ever has the kind of mental illness that james foresaw i membered i will resume painting do you worry about president tom. i go i look at the twitter fade i look at the spaces i look at they statement says my. and if you put that side by side but barry goldwater there's no comparison. i've never seen and i won as donald trump does and the public arena and such a high position are it's it's extremely worrisome the way he obsesses on hillary clinton the way he obsesses on the russian investigation the way the tax man our days i mean it

the researches are also trying to track down other illnesses using their mass spectrometer. the ultimate goal to be able to identify lung cancer from a single puff of breath. everyone dreams of diagnosing lung cancer and acceleration if we set ourselves that goal at the outset though we probably would have failed instead we're currently concentrating on easier question where we've already produced some good results research advances and small steps but you need a vision and diagnosing lung cancer from birth is our vision. but there are advances in diagnosing simpler complaints using exhaled and are already a reality and they could one day pave the way for the big breakthrough. but the fight against cancer goes on for both doctors and patients. one simple method has proven to be surprisingly effective against the condition. walking to fight fatigue. growing to beat the blues. lifting weights to up your energy levels cancer patients appear to benefit from lots of exercise even while they're in the midst of taxing chemo and radiation therapy treatments. i feel i just have more

the indemnification is is absolutely criminal if we have over one hundred thousand soldiers ill it just shows it's a good example of you know how much our government really cares about our soldiers are just pawns. they're angry they're frustrated they feel as though they gave everything they had to the u.s. government they they believe down quicksand have their back when they sent them over to iraq and afghanistan to fight the war they believe when they came back to be taken care of. the military the v.a. or are supposed to take care of their veterans. and are supposed to provide good health care and a good transition out of the military and the military into v.a. has failed miserably on doing this and not only on the firm pitt issues but you know a lot of mental health issues and everything else there are many people who are working with the v.a. who feel that that studies have been either manipulated have been prone to bias in favor. result that my error or that having psychosomatic problems instead of physical problems. is a line must going to fit into steve jobs kids by coming up wi

we understand these are illnesses that have a physical, chemical, molecular structural basis.with the brain itself. almost all come from people who have died unexpectedly. many victims of the opioid academic. scientists look for signs of disease and other abnormalities and compare them to the person's mental health history. and they are starting to isolate genes that put people at a higher risk. the man who started this vast collection of brains hopes the research will lead to better treatments, based on the genetic causes of mental illness. the genes for behaviour disorders are not genes that guarantee you a disorder. they are not what we call fate genes, they are risk genes, like genes, they are risk genes, like genes for heart attack or stroke, there is no gene that causes a heart attack. finding new treatments is becoming increasingly more urgent. more veterans died from suicide fan ii'i,, more veterans died from suicide fan in,, but ptsd affects far more civilians. 0ne in,, but ptsd affects far more civilians. one in four of us will suffer some form of mental disorder in

>> i'm not saying he has a mental illness. i'm not saying he does not have a mental illness. i'm simply expressing no opinion on that subject because that is irrelevant. people can be mentally ill without being dangerous and they can be dangerous without being mentally ill. what i'm saying is he is dangerous. for example, he has incited his followers to commit assault and battery to anti-trump protesters in political rallies, which they have done, some of them have been tried for assault and battery. then his only complaint was they weren't violent enough, so by the time of charlottesville one of them actually committed a murder. that is how trump incites his followers. he's also boasted about his own sexual violence against women, sexual assaults, which indicated he has committed repeatedly, ha habitually, without any sense of guilt or remorse, instead of feeling guilty about it he's proud of it and bragged about it. there is a list as long as my arm of evidence of his dangerousness. >> we have to leave it there, dr. james gilligan, thank you for your time, sir, appreciate i

the researchers are also trying to track down other illnesses using their mass spectrometer. the ultimate goal to be able to identify lung cancer from a single puff of breath. everyone dreams of diagnosing lung cancer and acceleration if we set ourselves that. we probably would have failed instead we're currently concentrating on easier question more we've already produced some good results research advances and small steps but you need a vision and diagnosing lung cancer from birth is our vision. but there are advances in diagnosing simpler complaints using exhaled air are already a reality and they could one day pave the way for the big breakthrough. but the fight against cancer goes on for both doctors and patients. one simple method has proven to be surprisingly effective against the condition. walking to fight fatigue. growing to beat the blues. lifting weights to up your energy levels cancer patients appear to benefit from lots of exercise even while they're in the midst of taxing chemo and radiotherapy treatment. i just have more strength i can carry things for longer

and i know what i believe all these illnesses prevent partly because they can. incinerators well some went for offline if they were to found out. the end i mean if they would have realized. and we did in the fog of war we got to fix the mess in they took action to fix it. that's next good thing they did. now it turns out there was something else in the contract because all of that was good and an indemnity cost so they screw anything up they don't have to pay for the bill get stuck on the american taxpayer there will be an indemnification even for negligence on a reasonable acts by k.b.r. managers agents and if they fall within the definition of what is covered that's a crime even if they cause injury or death to henri's. that under the provisions of this clause that is correct even if they cause injury or death to civilian employees. under the provisions of the cause that's correct even if they cause injury or death to american soldiers. does not and does not carve out an exception for civilians our soldiers are which means that means that if in fact the activi

there were 14 illnesses in 11 states during that time. a series of recalls contaminated with nine people getting sick including one into fetal losses linked to illness. during that time, and the firm ally to the fda saying the firm would suspend the manufacture and distribution of cheese. however, the owner despite knowing the product tested positive for listeria continue to allow the product to be distributed. the owner later pleaded guilty to fda crimes and went to prison. justice is done, but if you need to find a way to detect such deceptions sooner. the oig also found fda did not have a reliable system for accessing the recall initiation date or the date fda became aware of potentially hazardous food products. more than a third of the recalls reviewed had the wrong initiation date entered into fda's electronic data system called the recall enterprise system. the electronic data system also did not include when fda first found out about the suspect food products. worse, if he does not collect sufficient or accurate data said the agenc

every year i have a serious illness, not hospitalization, but i get a flu like sickness. i lose my voice for a few days. in the last four or five years, at least two of them i got the flu shot and i always got sick. i think you have to take the advice of your medical professional, but i don't think people who don't take it i like the anti- vaccine crowd. >> whatever is good for you. you speak to your dr. and your dr. will you. the one year i got a flu shot, i got the flu. my own personal experience is saying i don't know if i want to do that again. >> when you got the flu i did not get the flu shot. >> but my kids got it at the time and they did not get the flu from me. >> everybody gets the flu shot. we have an eight -month-old baby at home. >> you have vulnerable groups, people were very young and the elderly. for me after hearing the explanation it seems isolated like a general vaccine. like us her throat, runny nose. it's a short list in new jersey and new york are on that list. it's where amazon may put their second world headquarters. what could it mean to new york

the last mental health ill!s with former governor richard codey. isto discuss. >> is it time to revisit the whole issue of how we d kids? >> i think so. well, first of all, the you a autism is a huge disorder and it could be a small learning disorder or something a lot of of different that is something we ned to evaluate and look at going forward. >> all the points are important in term of mental illness in terms of discussion it and also people mentally ill and not that commit the kind of crimes. unfortunately, awhether or not we deal within the criminal justice system and the prosecutor in the case really came down to mental illness and addiction. cue not help but many cases feel bad for the people in spite of the fact they had punish. here is a look at headline we are chasing for you tonight. reporter: orrin hatch will not run for re-election this year. the senator since 1907. including the americans with disabilities act and children's health insurance program and the tax cuts and job tax opens the door for presidential nominee mitt romney. the

it was mental illness, people change.megrown people with mental illness. >> the republican party has put together an immigration package that gives democrats what they want on daca and all they ask in return is the ability to vet people, to end chain migration, the ability to look at people like this we don't want in this country and be for coming here. it is appalling the democrats are still trying to take the moral high horse and sit on it and demand a clean daca bill went and they supported that would have helped prevent people like this criminal they are opposing. but we don't know that. >> if we do put it kate steinle's killer and the killer in the situation after they committed their initial crimes they wouldn't have committed these crimes? >> we don't know about these people or their mental illness but the truth is so many immigrants are contributing in our community, paying taxes, there are millions of undocumented citizens living in this country who are helping our country, this is a case of some bad apples that

he had been struggling from illness. here are the thoughts of jason mohammed and from illness.e are the thoughts ofjason mohammed and two of the game's greats. welcome back to alexandra palace, the main headline is that ronnie o'sullivan has lost to mark allen. yes, he won frames in one visit, which is what you have to do to win against your ont. if you have your opponent under pressure, it is still down to you as the player, in the case of mark allen, to put the boot in. if he had given ronnie breathing space, he could have recovered but he kept ronnie in the chair for most of the day. athumping win day. a thumping win for allen? a huge amount of confidence? yes but he has been level headed. he has won two matches, he still has two before winning the field. are waiting for mark allen to win a major. he has the ability, the match play, the determination. he must dominate some of the top players in the game. that will have given him a big boost. there are big names and heads left but if he can do it in the semifinal, then he will have confidence enough. the crowd a little unhapp

if you're ill you're ill. charles: you know, ben, but there are a lot of people out there now who for lack of a better word have gotten so accustomed to this sort of aid, it's difficult for them to get off of and in fact, you know listen we've brought to welfare some people are born cradle to grave. is there a responsibility of the government to break that cycle? ben: i think there is a responsibility. i mean, whose going to do it if not the person as a caretaker and it will be so good for people to start working. i'm not just concerned about the taxpayer although i am but i'm concerned about the mental health and stability, stable solid genius capabilities of people who are working, they're not working and getting handouts it's really bad for them. charles: adam i know you want to say something. adam: yeah, just that i wish that this weren't being linked to healthcare. i'm totally in favor of encouraging all people to work. i agree with everything everybody said about work being a good thing but we also need

ill after they had been knocked out in the round robin stage.arcelona have been showing off their new signing phillipe coutino ahead of him officially putting pen to paper on monday. the 25—year—old brazilian is moving from liverpool for a fee thought to be in excess of $190 million. since arriving at anfield five years ago, he's scored 5a goals in over 200 appearances, hitting double figures in each of the last three seasons. coutinho was the club's joint top scorer in the premier league last term with 13 goals. translation: it's incredible to know i'm going to be with my idols with players that have a lot of history likely in our messy, luis suarez, andres iniesta, gerard pique, sergio busquets, all those great players and i'm very happy to know that i will play with them. translation: i think he will bring us translation: i think he will bring usa translation: i think he will bring us a lot. he's a player that has a very good relationship with the goal but also knows how to give assists top q in terms of the construction of the team i think h

and terminally ill patients shouldn't have to beg the f.d.a. for a waiver forcing patients to bureaucracy eral when they are already fighting for their lives. the right to try act gives terminally ill patients access to treatments that has successfully bureaucracy when they are already fighting for their lives. the completed the f.d.a.'s phase one approval requirement but not yet completed the f.d.a.'s lengthy and complex full approval process that can take decades. sadly, sometimes when treatments and drugs reach final approval, it is too late for too many patients and their families because the terminally ill patient has already died. mr. speaker, given the stark contrast between life and death, between freedom and federal dictates, between hope and hopelessness the house should take up and pass the right to try act thereby giving a chance for life to terminally ill patients and their families. the united states senate overwhelmingly passed right to try legislation last year. it is time for the house to do the same thereby restoring freedom,

he's terminally ill with motor neurone disease.his illness and simply wants the right to a peaceful and dignified death. today he won the right to appeal a ruling that forbids assisted suicide. the court of appeal will now consider if he should be allowed help to end his own life. the issue of whether or not there should be a "right to die" provokes passionate opinions. 0ur medical correspondent fergus walsh has spoken to two campaigners with opposing views. sarah jessiman from warwickshire knows her time left is limited. breast cancer has spread to her spine and the treatment has at times been extremely painful. sarah, who has an unrelated hearing disorder, fears for the future. the possibility that i'm going to have the painful and prolonged death, and i'm scared. i am very scared of the thought of being bedbound in agony for weeks or months. sarah wants a doctor to be allowed to prescribe her a lethal dose of drugs if her final months become unbearable, but mps overwhelmingly rejected proposals for a right to die in 2015. i'd li

depression and mental illness is not a joke. >> many reacting to the fact paul makes jokes throughoutg does not, is not a important trail of how i feel about the circumstances. >> i cope with things with high schooler. >> the 22-year-old did end the video with a suicide hotline number but not before soliciting more subscribers. >> make sure to subscribe. tomorrow's blog, i promise you, will be much happier. >> in an appeal that many found offensive. >> what we came was today was obviously offensive. >> expressing remorseful. >> i should have never posted the video. i want to apologize to anyone who has seen it, to anyone who has been affected by mental illness and suicide. i want to apologize to the victim and his family. >> i don't think he's done apologizing for this. but i hope it becomes more than just an apology and i hope it becomes a teachable moment. >> youtube has been criticized for not taking down the video immediately. >> youtube is just the bulletin board. >> a youtube spokesperson said our hearts go out to the familiar lift person featured in this video. youtube prohibit

most mentally ill people are nice and well-mannered and trump is none of these.them together stigmatizes the mental health population. thanks for being here. what moved you to speak out. what do you want people to know about the medical facts here? >> there are lots of very accurate names for donald trump, call him impulsive spoiled brat, a really bad guy, call him a dangerous threat to american democracy, call him an ignorant jerk. all would be accurate and useful names. but i do object to psychological name calling because it is an insult to the patients i've known who are mostly wonderful people, which trump isn't. and even worse a real distraction from the important work we have to do to set limits on this baby president. we're calling him names, we're avoiding political work that needs to be done and institutional taming that's the responsibility of congress, the courts and press. >> dr. francis, put it so well just then. called president a baby. this president has called many people worse things. in first amendment free speech socie society people can talk

illnesses were reported in 13 states and canada. the cdc says the outbreak started in mid-november.enny. >> diane, we hear that there's a new report that kids are earning a paycheck around the house. how much are kids earning on average these days? >> reporter: okay. this is an annual report from rooster money an allowance app and track their shows kids earn about $450 a year. that's about 8 to 9 bucks a week. and guess what. they are planning to save nearly half of that. as for top things kids save for, they are looking for legos, phones and dolls. >> hm. pretty interesting. yeah. you can do that or if you are a parent who says, hey, just do it, no, no, um, no money for you, that's another option, too, right? >> i didn't get an allowance. >> i didn't get one, either. >> it's enough to have a roof over your head, lady. >> you should be grateful. >> diane king hall, thank you. >> my kids do their chores for free. >> just do it. >> do it. >>> 5:39 right now. california lawmakers are considering a new plan aimed at helping residents facing higher federal tax bills. >> plus, the bitter

kron four's rob fladeboe was there as three sheriff's deputies convicted of murdering a mentally ille received the maximum sentence. first three same as five... 1:40-1:56 lori smith santa clara county sherriff1:57-2:08 rob fladaboejeff rosen/santa clara county dist. attorney "...they beat him to death...' santa clara county district attorney jeff rosen outside the hall of justice friday morning, moments after three former sheriff's deputies, shown here in earlier court appearances, were sentenced after being convicted last summer in the 2015 murder of mentally ill inmate michael tyree. jeff rosen"....the purpose of a jail is to protect the but in this case that didn't happen community but also to protect those inside the jail and the trust and the authority the jail guards had in this case was not used, instead they used that authority to beat and murder mr. tyree to death..."the d.a. says the case broke public trust in the jail system, which is now trying win back that trust with on-going reforms like more surveillance cameras and training. sheriff laurie smith oversees the jail sys

i want to apologize to anyone who has seen it, to anyone who has illness and suicide.ant to apologize to the victim and his family. >> i don't think he's done apologizing for this. but i hope it becomes more than just an apology and i hope it becomes a teachable moment. >> youtube has been criticized for not taking down the video immediately. >> youtube is just the bulletin board. >> a youtube spokesperson said our hearts go out to the familiar lift person featured in this video. youtube prohibits violent or gory content posted in a shocking manner. >> his name is logan paul. >> paul hirs gained notoriety from posting signs like this on vinl. known for breaking out in the splits in unlikely places. >> it isn't a stretch to say that logan is side splitting >> eventually he launched a youtube channel. >> this person holds a lot of power and influence over our children. they love him. >> paul is no stranger to controversy. as his squad grew, so too did his boundaries. pursuing edgier stunts. like this one where he fakes his own death. >> i'm okay! did you believe it? >> a

the court of appeal is to consider whether terminally—ill patients , should be allowed assistance , ifwish to die. and at 36,000 feet, the pope has officiated at an improvised marriage service. and coming up on sportsday: defending masters snooker champion ronnie 0'sullivan says he's glad to be knocked out of the tournament after losing in the quarterfinals. good evening. britain and france have tonight agreed to closer ties on defence and security and measures to tackle the migrant crisis. the deal was struck between theresa may and emmanuel macron, who was making his first visit to the uk since becoming president of france last year. the talks took place at the royal military academy, sandhurst. mrs may committed tens of millions of pounds to strengthen uk border controls in france. the sandhurst treaty will also accelerate the processing of migrants trying to come to the uk through calais. and while both countries committed to closer military cooperation, mr macron warned that if britain wanted access to the single market after brexit, then it would have to play by the eu's rules. 0

of people in our business, industrial business park, including several from my andbuilding, become ill, nobody is able to explain why. we have talked to health officials, we have talked to different -- i have written to the department in the state of california that is supposed to take care of things. for example i had an employee, a secretary, who on the way from -- 50 feet -- from walking to our building to her car, she became ill, and at lunchtime she threw up. we are not sure if it is butane, we do not know what the chemicals are, but no one is addressing this, and we have not heard it discussed anywhere. this is an operation with millions of dollars of equipment, and this is not one of the kids in their basement blowing up their mother's house. but there are issues out there where the regulators are not even aware of some of these things, and so when they talk about health and safety, that is where i think the focus should be on. there are things that are just going through that are not being addressed by anyone. host: all right, other headlines, politico reports that someone is e

serious mental illnesses like clinical depression can't just be put down to problems in life. they're biological diseases. the same goes for psychosis like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. neurologist has spent his career exploring of things he suspects at least thirteen pathogens of playing a role in mental health disorders and diseases involving the immune system. backstairs hypothesis has been lent weight by a large scale study from scandinavia involving more than three and a half million subjects. over time the severe infections and auto immune diseases that bring people to the clinic also increase their likelihood of contracting all kinds of serious mental disorders. a radical thought but many doctors and psychiatrists don't agree they don't believe microorganisms are responsible for psychiatric disorders instead putting them down to factors like stress patients are often told their disease has an unknown origin which isn't much help. you can help the patient much more if you identify the cause which we've done in certain individual cases say struck the caucus bacteria

going to build a rehab, and build a facility for the mentally ill. >> today's vote came after three former correctional officers received sentences of 15 years to life this month for the 2015 beating death of a mentally ill inmate. >>> now to looking for a job and making sure that your social media accounts do not hurt your chances of getting one. >> on your side's michael finney on how that can get you in so much trouble. >> it's not trouble today, it's trouble ten years from now. it's part of their screening potential employers will likely scour your social media accounts. so here are some tips to ensure that you put your best cyber foot forward. >> jeanette torres says the first lesson she learned in grad school was social media 101. >> the very first thing they told us was clean up your email and your facebook because we checked and your future employers will check also. >> reporter: she found that of sociemployers used social me to screen candidates. >> it could be inappropriate comments or illegal activity. >> reporter: federal law bars employers from considering a person's ra

ken gilstein remembers the happy times, before his wife of 40 years succumbed to mental illness.lity changes that led to paula's suicidejust a few months ago. he hopes donating her brain to research will help scientists find the answers. there is so much that needs to be known about people who have that psychiatric illnesses and what is going on with the brain, that research is the only way. and i'm hoping that hopefully if they can find some information, that we can prevent something like this happening, that people don't have to go through not only what we went through but we are currently going through. this is where paula's brain is being studied. the world's largest brain bank dedicated to finding biological causes for mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, depression and post—traumatic stress disorder. i think we are understanding these are illnesses that have a physical, chemical, molecular structural basis. and i think we take it away from being either a lack of character, a defect in will, and understand that this is a defect in function of the brain. it all starts with

it's essentially when a caregiver will fabricate an illness or induce an illness in their child in order is a board certified child abuse pediatrician. >> it's abuse on the child, but it's to obtain attention or some kind of secondary gain for themselves. >> sometimes it's financial. >> it can be. the most common, though, is actually emotional gain. i look at it kind of like an addict who needs that fix. hard is caused to the child you can report that to social services and say, "i have a suspicion." i at the time did not think that it had enough information just to call. >> reporter: dr. flasterstein didn't call child protective services but someone later else did -- >> reporter: according to this police report obtained by 20/20 a doctor alerted authorities when he "could not find any symptoms that support what dee dee alleges to be wrong with her daughter. two case workers later did visit the blanchard home. but they found nothing out of the ordinary and closed the case. >> how was dee dee able to get away with this for so long? >> most of the time, these mothers are pathologic liars.

the three were sentenced for killing mentally ill inmate michael tyree in 2015.und unconscious on his jail cell floor. ktvu's ann rubin live outside of the courthouse with all the details. >> reporter: this case sparked outrage and a demand for change inside the jail. both in terms of use of force and in how incidents involving the mentally ill had handled. three former jail guards, matt lauer, rafael rodriguez and jereh lubin have been sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison. it was the harshest of the penalties the judge could have imposed. the men were convicted of beating a mentally ill inmate to death inside the santa clara county jail. michael tyree was found bruised and bloodied on the floor of his cell in august of 2015. >> this is not a happy day for law enforcement. far from it. because these three jail guards whose job it was to oversee the correctional system will now be imprisoned within it. however, it is a just day. >> reporter: sheriff laurie smith who oversees the jail agrees. >> i think it was fair. a man was murdered at the hands of these