Understanding the Impact of Brain Disorders: Towards a ‘Horizontal Epidemiology’ of Psychosocial Difficulties and Their Determinants

• Alarcos Cieza ,

  * E-mail: a.cieza@soton.ac.uk

  Affiliations Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (IBE), Chair for Public Health and Health Services Research, Research Unit for Biopsychosocial Health, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany, Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil, Switzerland

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• Marta Anczewska,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland

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• Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos,

  Affiliation Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Department of Psychiatry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Psychiatry Service, Instituto de Investigación del Hospital Universitario de La Princesa (IIS-IP), Madrid, Spain

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• Mary Baker,

  Affiliation European Brain Council, Brussels, Belgium

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• Jerome Bickenbach,

  Affiliation Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil, Switzerland

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• Somnath Chatterji,

  Affiliation Multi-Country Studies, Department of Measurement and Health Information Systems, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Sally Hartley,

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Matilde Leonardi,

  Affiliation Neurology, Public Health and Disability Unit, Scientific Directorate, Neurological Institute Carlo Besta IRCCS Foundation, Milan, Italy

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• Tuuli Pitkänen,

  Affiliation A-Clinic Foundation, Helsinki, Finland

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• PARADISE Consortium

  ¶Membership of the PARADISE Consortium is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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