Society of Biological Psychiatry

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• Biological psychiatry — Biological psychiatry, or biopsychiatry is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous system. It is interdisciplinary in its approach and draws on sciences such as… …   Wikipedia

• Biological Psychiatry, Beginning of in United States —    (1946)    In 1946 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, two California neurologists Johannes M. Nielsen (1890–1969, professor of neurology at the University of Southern California) and his student George N. Thompson (1909–?), chief… …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

• Biological Psychiatry — Infobox Journal discipline = Psychiatry, Biological psychiatry website = http://www.elsevier.com/locate/biopsychiat link1 = http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00063223 link1 name = Content URL publisher = Elsevier country = Netherlands… …   Wikipedia

• Psychiatry — is a medical specialty which exists to study, prevent, and treat mental disorders in humans. Psychiatric assessment typically involves a mental status examination and taking a case history, and psychological tests may be administered. Physical… …   Wikipedia

• Biological psychology — In psychology, biological psychology, also known as biopsychology, psychobiology, or behavioral neuroscience [http://www.m w.com/cgi bin/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla search va=psychobiology Merriam Webster s Online Dictionary » Psychobiology] >]… …   Wikipedia

• Women in Psychiatry —    Several of the women involved with psychoanalysis, such as Anna Freud and Melanie Klein, are familiar figures. Yet, the lives of many other women who also made distinguished contributions to the fields of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and… …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

• PSYCHIATRY — The Biblical Period References to states of mental disturbance are frequently found in the Bible. Deuteronomy 28:28, 34 views madness as punishment for disobeying the commandments. The tragedy of Saul s last years is ascribed to an evil spirit… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Anti-psychiatry — See also: Biopsychiatry controversy Anti psychiatry refers to a post 1960s configuration of groups and theoretical constructs hostile to most of the fundamental assumptions and practices of psychiatry. Its igniting influences were Michel Foucault …   Wikipedia

• Child and adolescent psychiatry — The branch of psychiatry that specializes in the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of psychopathological disorders of children, adolescents, and their families, child and adolescent psychiatry encompasses the clinical investigation of… …   Wikipedia

• Emergency psychiatry — is the clinical application of psychiatry in emergency settings.[1][2] Conditions requiring psychiatric interventions may include attempted suicide, substance abuse, depression, psychosis, violence or other rapid changes in behavior. Psychiatric… …   Wikipedia

• Cross-cultural psychiatry — or transcultural psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry concerned with the cultural and ethnic context of mental disorders and psychiatric services. It emerged as a coherent field from several strands of work, including surveys of the prevalence… …   Wikipedia