Biomarkers for Psychiatric Disorders

Biological markers, as physiological indicators of disease, hold immense promise for diagnostics and clinical drug trials. While for other complex disorders like diabetes and heart disease a limited number of markers are at hand, there are currently no biomarkers available for psychiatric disorders....

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Turck, Chris (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Blood and Brain Gene Expression in Major Psychiatric Disorders: A Search for Biomarkers
  • Biomarkers in Schizophrenia
  • Proteomic Strategies for Biomarker Discovery: From Differential Expression to Isoforms to Pathways
  • Schizophrenia Biomarkers: A Means to Advance Disease Understanding, Diagnosis and Treatment
  • RNA Biomarkers in Schizophrenia
  • Metabolomics: A Global Biochemical Approach to the Discovery of Biomarkers for Psychiatric Disorders
  • Animal Models for Schizophrenia: A Brief Overview
  • Synaptoproteomics of Existing and new Animal Models of Depression
  • Animal Models for Anxiety Disorders
  • Animal Models of Affective Behaviors and Drug Addiction
  • Neuroimaging Biomarkers in Schizophrenia
  • Sleep EEG Provides Biomarkers in Depression
  • Strategies to Identify Biomarkers for Depression
  • Pharmacogenetics of Antidepressant Response
  • Perspectives for an Integrated Biomarker Approach to Drug Discovery and Development
  • Hunting for Peripheral Biomarkers to Support Drug Development in Psychiatry
  • Biomarkers for the Development of Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Drugs
  • DNA Biomarkers for Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine
  • Biological Modeling in the Discovery and Validation of Cognitive Dysfunctions Biomarkers.