What we still don’t know about mental illness

Brain science has led to medical breakthroughs, but understanding the mind and treating that⁠—is still elusive. New York Times Magazine writer Daniel Bergner joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his brother’s journey with a bipolar diagnosis and the medications he was put on⁠—and how drug-based treatments are still based on a lot of assumptions. His book is “The Mind and the Moon: My Brother’s Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches.”