The Medical Basis of Psychiatry

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fatemi, S. Hossein (Editor), Clayton, Paula J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2008.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Neurology.; Psychiatry.; Neuropsychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

Psychiatry has emerged as a burgeoning scientific field with major advances in etiology and treatment of several disorders. Just as there was excitement in the anatomic advances that took place a hundred years ago when Emil Kraepelin and his collaborators took on the enormous task of classification...