What Can "Lived Experience" Teach Neuroscientists?

A provocative paper says that neuroscientists who research mental health problems ought to listen to the views of people who have experienced those conditions. The piece, from Australian authors Anthony Stratford and colleagues, is published in The Psychiatric Quarterly. Here are some highlights: Traditionally, mental health consumer [i.e. patient] involvement in research activities has largely been as "subjects"... the passive recipients of research activity... This approach does lit