CNSNews.com - Mexican Immigrants to U.S. More Likely to Have Psychiatric Disorders than Mexican or U.S. Populations

CNSNews.com - Mexican Immigrants to U.S. More Likely to Have Psychiatric Disorders than Mexican or U.S. Populations: "(CNSNews.com) – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is paying researchers more than $450,000 in federal tax money to further investigate the relationship between emigration from Mexico and psychiatric disorders.

A previous study of English-speaking Mexican immigrants found that, irrespective of legal status, immigrants with a “pre-existing disorder' were three times more likely to migrate to the U.S. than those who did not.

That 2007 article – “Mental Disorders Among English-Speaking Mexican Immigrants to the U.S. Compared to a National Sample of Mexicans” -- focused on mood and anxiety disorders that are listed in the official Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association."