How come despite spending billions of dollars pharmaceutical companies are not a

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How come despite spending billions of dollars pharmaceutical companies are not able to find 'the magic bullet' to cure mental disorders?

(Note: your response must focus only on the biological/anatomical/physiological aspects. Any response that is based on social/economic factors will not be accepted. In the past some students focused on expressing views on how evil the pharmaceutical companies are and they deliberately refuse to find the magic bullet because it is not in their economic interest. Those students received score of zero for this RT)

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Despite of spending billions of dollars, pharmaceutical companies are not able to find 'the magic bullet' to cure mental disorders as the biological causes of major mental disorders remains unknown. Researchers haven't been able to elucidate a disease pathway for any mental disorder. Due to this, there is lack of molecular targets for new drug development.

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