Biological Psychiatry - 9781559388191

Biological PsychiatryAuthor(s): Edward Bittar\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science & Technology, United Kingdom\nImprint: JAI Press Inc.\nISBN-13: 9781559388191, 978-1559388191\nSynopsis\nIt is now widely recognised that biological psychiatry is rapidly coming into its own. For over the last three decades dramatic advances in this young discipline have been made, all of which attest to the staying power of the experimental method. Those who made this revolution in knowledge happen are a breed of investigators availing themselves of the tools of molecular biology, pharmacology, genetics, and perhaps, above all, the technology of neuroimaging. The introduction of the interdisciplinary method of approach to the study of psychopathology had made it very clear that neuroimaging, as a set of techniques, is unique in that it is gradually providing us with evidence supporting Kraepelin's original view that mental illness is closely associated with abnormal changes in the [url] .