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Dramatic advances in biological psychiatry have attested to the staying power of the experimental method. Those who made this revolution in knowledge happen are a breed of investigators availing themselves of the tools of molecular biology, pharmacology, genetics, and perhaps, above all, the technology of neuroimaging.
List of contents
Contents. List of Contributors. Preface (E.E. Bittar and N. Bittar). Consciousness (T.W. Picton and D.T. Stuss). Emotional Circuits of the Mammalian Brain: Implications for Biological Psychiatry (J. Panksepp). The Sexual Brain (W. Byne and E. Kemmether). The Biology of Personality (R.T. Mulder). The Biology of Aggression (P.F. Brain). Psychological Aspects of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Activity (E. Ur). Stress and the Immune System (C.M. Pariante and A.H. Miller). Fear and Anxiety Mechanisms of the Brain: Clinical Implications (J. Panksepp). Biological Aspects of Depression (B.E. Leonard). Psychobiology of Suicidal Behavior (K.M. Malone). Bipolar Disorder (J.C.Y. Chou and R. Cancro). The Biological Basis of Schizophrenia (P. Winn). Heterogeneity of Schizophrenia: Diagnostic and Etiological Approaches (M.T. Tsuang, M.J. Lyons, and R. Toomey). Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: General Principles (C.E. Kaplan and A. Thompson). Major Disorders in Child Psychiatry (C.E. Kaplan and A. Thompson). Child Sexual Abuse (M. Wiseman and D. Glaser). Hereditary and Acquired Mental Retardation (J. Stern). Autism (C. Gillberg). Personality Disorders (P. Tyrer and K. Evans). Alcoholism, Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Dependence (D.H. Overstreet and A.B. Kampov-Polevoy). Homelessness and Mental Illness (J. Scott). Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa (D.S. Goldbloom). Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Drugs (S.C. Cheetham and D.J. Heal). Lithium Use in Clinical Practice (D.L. Dunner and J.J. Neumaier). Antipsychotic Drugs (B.K. Colasanti). Introduction to Electroconvulsive Therapy (A.P. Zis). Index.
