Biological Psychiatry - Trends
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Diagnosing suicides of resolve: psychiatric practice in contemporary Japan.

30 May 2008 In Japan, suicide has long been depicted as an act of free will, even aestheticized in the cultural notion suicide of resolve. Amid the record-high Japanese suicide rates since the 1990s, however, Japanese psychiatrists have been working to ... Read more...

Entangled Matters--Alzheimer's, interiority, and the 'unflattening' of the world.

30 May 2008 When, in the 1980s, Alzheimer's disease became a disease of major public concern, 'personhood' also became an important, related topic of discussion. Those in caring professions (psychology, social work, etc.) and caregiver groups advocated for the ... Read more...

Psychotherapy in psychiatry.

30 Jan 2007 The relationship between psychotherapy and psychiatry has become a beleagured one in recent years. The swing of the pendulum in the direction of biological psychiatry has led to a marginalization of psychotherapy within the discipline of psychiatry ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Biological Psychiatry - Trends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• "Normative orthodoxies in depression and the 'space' for alternative discourses". 30 May 2009
• Paradigms lost: rethinking psychiatry in the postgenome era. 30 Dec 2008
• Diagnosing suicides of resolve: psychiatric practice in contemporary Japan. 30 May 2008
• Entangled Matters--Alzheimer's, interiority, and the 'unflattening' of the world. 30 May 2008
• Phenomics: building scaffolds for biological hypotheses in the post-genomic era. 28 Feb 2008
• [No psychiatry without social psychiatry] 30 Dec 2007
• Psychotherapy in psychiatry. 30 Jan 2007
• How endangered is dynamic psychiatry in residency training? 30 Dec 2005
• Are we more than the sum of our parts? Should we listen to Albert Einstein? 30 Mar 2005
• Current trends in women's health research: it is time to strike up the band as we march forward into the 21st century. 4 Jan 2005
• A continuing success story. 30 Dec 2004
• International Congress of Biological Psychiatry. 8-13 February 2004, Sydney, Australia. 28 Feb 2004
• An update of the strategic plan for neuropsychiatry. 30 Dec 2003
• Genetics of personality: are we making progress? 29 Sep 2003
• Understanding the biological bases of mental illness. 30 Aug 2003
• Neurology, psychiatry, and neuroscience. 29 Apr 2003
• Neurology, psychiatry, and neuroscience. 29 Apr 2003
• Regional Symposium WFSBP "Joining forces for future challenges in Biological Psychiatry"11-13 December 2003, Bruges, Belgium. Abstracts. 30 Dec 2002
• Finding a home for post-traumatic stress disorder in biological psychiatry. Is it a disorder of anxiety, mood, stress, or memory? 30 May 2002
• [Psychiatry as a profession--how does the future look?] 30 Dec 2001

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Technical information about 'Biological Psychiatry'

Definition: An interdisciplinary science concerned with studies of the biological bases of behavior - biochemical, genetic, physiological, and neurological - and applying these to the understanding and treatment of mental illness.

Descriptor UI: D001689

Alternative terms: Biological Psychiatry; Biologic Psychiatry; Psychiatry, Biologic; Psychiatry, Biological;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096.544.090; H02.403.776.655.100;

History Note: 84

Technical Notes: SPEC only: SPEC qualif; DF: BIOL PSYCHIATRY