Biomarkers and Mental Illness It’s Not All in the Mind /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Copernicus,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46088-8 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.