He and 42 fellow researchers are pioneering a radical technology to shine a bright light on the cellular causes of mental illness.

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Kraepelin's work, however, was soon overshadowed by that of Sigmund Freud, whose conclusion that mental illness came from emotional causes, rather than physical ones, underpinned the rise of the psychoanalytical tradition in Europe and America in the 20th century.

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It is human nature to grasp at understandable causes for complicated, tragic affairs such as the development of a severe mental illness.

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Junior Bradshaw, 32, of Longsight, Manchester, suffers from a mental illness which causes him to have incoherent thoughts, the jury heard.

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Brand's perspective is that mental illness is more at fault in the attack than the influence of radical Islam and that root causes must be analyzed, as well.

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