Biological Psychiatry
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The historical development of psychiatry in Serbia.

30 May 2009 The authors present the development of the concept of mental disease and treatment in Serbian medicine. Serbian medieval medicine did not acknowledge fortune telling, sorcery, the use of amulets and magical rituals and formulas. These progressive ... Read more...

Philosophy of neuroscience and options of systems science.

9 May 2009 Molecular biology as a research approach in psychiatry has gathered a huge amount of data that can hardly be used for explanation of mental disorders by cellular dysfunctions. In a philosophical sense "explanation" means the application of general ... Read more...

Brainhood, anthropological figure of modernity.

30 Jan 2009 If personhood is the quality or condition of being an individual person, "brainhood" could name the quality or condition of being a brain. This ontological quality would define the "cerebral subject" that has, at least in industrialized and highly ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Biological Psychiatry'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The historical development of psychiatry in Serbia. 30 May 2009
• "Normative orthodoxies in depression and the 'space' for alternative discourses". 30 May 2009
• Philosophy of neuroscience and options of systems science. 9 May 2009
• Abstracts of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. May 13-16, 2009. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 13 Apr 2009
• Brainhood, anthropological figure of modernity. 30 Jan 2009
• Dr William Sargant (1907-88) and the emergence of physical treatments in British psychiatry. 30 Jan 2009
• [Knowledge and power at a molecular level; biological psychiatry in a social context] 30 Dec 2008
• Paradigms lost: rethinking psychiatry in the postgenome era. 30 Dec 2008
• [The birth of convulsive therapy] 29 Nov 2008
• Understanding depression in palliative and end-of-life care. 30 Oct 2008
• Metabolomics: a global biochemical approach to the study of central nervous system diseases. 6 Oct 2008
• Abstracts of the 7th Three-Country-Symposium for Biological Psychiatry, 09-11 October 2008, Göttingen. 29 Sep 2008
• Pharmacogenomics: the promise of personalized medicine for CNS disorders. 15 Sep 2008
• Integrative treatment in psychiatry. 30 Aug 2008
• Transdisciplinary holistic integrative psychiatry - a wishfull thinking or reality? 30 Aug 2008
• Neuropsychiatry. An old discipline in a new gestalt bridging biological psychiatry, neuropsychology, and cognitive neurology. 30 May 2008
• Kraepelin, biological psychiatry, and beyond. 30 May 2008
• Update on early intervention in schizophrenia. 30 May 2008
• Morals, medicine and change: morality brokers, social phobias, and French psychiatry. 30 May 2008
• Diagnosing suicides of resolve: psychiatric practice in contemporary Japan. 30 May 2008

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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