Biomarkers and Mental Illness It’s Not All in the Mind /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Guest, Paul C. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Copernicus, 2017.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Human genetics.; Psychiatry.; Bioinformatics.; Life Sciences.; Human Genetics.

Employing accessible language throughout, this book covers the history of psychiatric research, the current state-of-the art in psychiatric practice, the physiological systems affected by psychiatric illnesses, the whole-body nature of these diseases and the impact that this aspect has on emerging b...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I
• CHAPTER 1 – Psychiatric disorders as “whole body” diseases
• CHAPTER 2 – Treatment of psychiatric disorders: time for a paradigm change?
• CHAPTER 3 – The importance of biomarkers: the required tools of the trade
• Part II
• CHAPTER 4 – Schizophrenia and the mind-body connection
• CHAPTER 5 – Progress for better treatment of depression
• CHAPTER 6 - The special case of bipolar disorder
• CHAPTER 7 – The worrying case of anxiety and stress-related disorders
• CHAPTER 8 - The autism spectrum conditions and the extreme male brain syndrome
• CHAPTER 9 – Gender and psychiatric disorders
• Part III
• CHAPTER 10 – CHAPTER 10 - Biomarkers and new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease
• CHAPTER 11 – Parkinson’s disease, biomarkers and beyond
• Part IV
• CHAPTER 12 – The future: towards personalized medicine.