Biological Psychiatry - Research News and Information

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Transdisciplinary holistic integrative psychiatry - a wishfull thinking or reality?

30 Aug 2008 Modern psychiatry in the last century proposed several aggregative biopsychosocial models as an opposition to prevailing fragmentary, reductionistic and dogmatic approaches. Although the biopsychosocial approach has become the mainstream concept of ... Read more...

Integrative treatment in psychiatry.

30 Aug 2008 Psychiatry is a medical discipline addressing the study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental disorders. Psychiatric disorders, which may be seen in people of all ages, involve the emotions, the will, and intellectual processes, verbal and ... Read more...

Neuropsychiatry. An old discipline in a new gestalt bridging biological psychiatry, neuropsychology, and cognitive neurology.

30 May 2008 The recent developments of psychiatry getting better insight into the biological basis of psychiatric disorders questions the old division between psychiatry and neurology. The present paper focus on the concept of neuropsychiatry, its historical ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Biological Psychiatry'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Transdisciplinary holistic integrative psychiatry - a wishfull thinking or reality? 30 Aug 2008
• Integrative treatment in psychiatry. 30 Aug 2008
• Neuropsychiatry. An old discipline in a new gestalt bridging biological psychiatry, neuropsychology, and cognitive neurology. 30 May 2008
• Entangled Matters--Alzheimer's, interiority, and the 'unflattening' of the world. 30 May 2008
• Diagnosing suicides of resolve: psychiatric practice in contemporary Japan. 30 May 2008
• Morals, medicine and change: morality brokers, social phobias, and French psychiatry. 30 May 2008
• Kraepelin, biological psychiatry, and beyond. 30 May 2008
• Update on early intervention in schizophrenia. 30 May 2008
• Abstracts of the 63rd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, Washington, DC, USA, 2008. 30 Mar 2008
• Phenomics: building scaffolds for biological hypotheses in the post-genomic era. 28 Feb 2008
• Biology is psychiatry's new dawn. 30 Dec 2007
• Integrative mental health care: from theory to practice, Part 2. 30 Dec 2007
• World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Substance Use and Related Disorders, Part 1: Alcoholism. 30 Dec 2007
• Psychiatric challenges throughout the life span. Abstracts of the Second Meeting of West European Societies of Biological Psychiatry. December 13-15, 2007. Strasbourg, France. 29 Nov 2007
• Integrative mental health care: from theory to practice, part 1. 30 Oct 2007
• Neurobiological formulations: integrating clinical and biological psychiatry. 30 Oct 2007
• Considering theories of aggression in an emergency department context. 2 Oct 2007
• Research into putative biological mechanisms of mental disorders has been of no value to clinical psychiatry. 29 Sep 2007
• Kraepelin's 'lost biological psychiatry'? Autointoxication, organotherapy and surgery for dementia praecox. 30 Aug 2007
• Sacred radical of psychiatry. 30 Jul 2007

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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