Medicalization describes the process by which non-medical problems become defined and treated as medical issues. Psychologization is the opposite of medicalization. Psychologization is the attribution of psychosocial causes to health conditions that have a biological or hereditary origin.

Both medicalization and psychologization can misdirect funding resources, resulting in healthcare inequities and injustices that befall people with historically psychologized, misunderstood health conditions. This mission is focused on health conditions that disproportionately afflict a segment of the unhoused community and justice-involved persons. Health conditions that exclusively afflict women have also been psychologized historically.

NASNIcares aims to engage students of neuroscience, researchers, and general medical professionals to play a more prominent role in the societal conversations about these health conditions. They have been in the background for far too long.

Reform requires a decreasing tolerance for inequities and injustices within the general public. That goal can only be achieved by raising awareness.