Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience: A Primer
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199360561 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Louis - School of Medicine, where he is also Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Director of the McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology. Louis - School of Medicine. His research interests include Alzheimer's disease and depression in the presence of comorbid medical illness. Dr. Rubin is Vice-Chair for Education and Professor in the Department of
Understanding how the neural networks that underlie these mental functions become dysfunctional holds great promise for devising innovative approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Psychiatric disorders reflect dysfunction of the human mind and involve changes in cognition, emotion, and motivation. Moreover, advances in clinical neuroscience are being coupled with expanding knowledge about genetics and cellular and synaptic neuroscience. Taken together, these advancements offer the hope of much more mechanism-based approaches to treatment in the future. Research in neuroscience is revolutionizing how we think about psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. Better understanding of neural circuits also can provide the
Sean said Great overview. Provides a concise, yet adequately-detailed primer for how to conceptualize psychiatry in the modern era.The authors purport utilizing a diagnostic and therapeutic scheme that is based on an understanding of how neural connectivity networks may become unregulate. "Five Stars" according to Rogério Paysano Marrocos. The best book of psychiatry news advices!
Additionally, I think Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience should be a must-read for psychiatric residents and those clinicians who want to peek into the future. I found the arguments compelling and was excited to read this book!" - David L. "Zorumski and Rubin have written a delightful volume proposing a new and intriguing theory regarding the pathogenesis of mental disorders It certainly presents an impressive summary of research into brain function and structure compiled thus far and discusses areas of future research. Indeed should the book be successful in luring future clinician-scientists into the profession, it would have undoubtedly achieved s