Psychiatry as a Neuroscience

Juan José López-Ibor Jr., Wolfgang Gaebel, Mario Maj, Norman Sartorius9780471496564, 0-471-49656-1

Psychiatry as a Neuroscience provides an overview of recent solid advances in biological psychiatry which are of clinical relevance.These include * psychoneuroendocrinological and psychoimmunological findings in major depression * genetic and neuroimaging data in schizophrenia * molecular genetic findings in Alzheimer’s disease * neuroimaging data in obsessive-compulsive disorder. This book will be of interest to psychiatrists and psychologists, neuroscientists, managers and policy makers.