Biomarkers in Psychiatry

This volume addresses one of the Holy Grails in Psychiatry, namely the evidence for and potential to adopt 'Biomarkers' for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment responses in mental health conditions. It meshes together state of the art research from international renowned pre-clinical and clinical scientists to illustrate how the fields of anxiety disorders, depression, psychotic disorders, and autism spectrum disorder have advanced in recent years.

List of contents

Part 1. Introductory Perspective.- Part 2. Methodological strategies for biomarker identification: From cells to behavior.- Part 3. Affective Disorders.- Part 4. Psychosis and Bipolar Disorders.- Part 5. Substance Misuse.- Part 6. Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

Summary

This volume addresses one of the Holy Grails in Psychiatry, namely the evidence for and potential to adopt ‘Biomarkers’ for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment responses in mental health conditions. It meshes together state of the art research from international renowned pre-clinical and clinical scientists to illustrate how the fields of anxiety disorders, depression, psychotic disorders, and autism spectrum disorder have advanced in recent years.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hall (Editor), Hall (Editor), Jeremy Hall (Editor), Judit Pratt (Editor), Judith Pratt (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783319996417
• ISBN: 978-3-31-999641-7
• No. of pages: 437
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 30 mm x 242 mm
• Weight: 812 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 437 p. 18 illus., 9 illus. in color.
• Series: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences; Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; B, Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Zoology & animal sciences, Neurosciences, Pharmacology, Psychopharmacology, Behavioral Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Zoology, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory, Behavioral Genetics, Neurobiology, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Scientific equipment, experiments and techniques, Animal models in research, Animal Models, Experimental Organisms