Biomarkers and Mental Illness: It's Not All in the Mind

By Paul C. Guest

Book Overview

Part I.- CHAPTER 1 - Psychiatric disorders as "whole body" diseases.- CHAPTER 2 - Treatment of psychiatric disorders: time for a paradigm change?.- CHAPTER 3 - The importance of biomarkers: the required tools of the trade.- Part II.- CHAPTER 4 - Schizophrenia and the mind-body connection.- CHAPTER 5 - Progress for better treatment of depression.- CHAPTER 6 - The special case of bipolar disorder.- CHAPTER 7 - The worrying case of anxiety and stress-related disorders.- CHAPTER 8 - The autism spectrum conditions and the extreme male brain syndrome.- CHAPTER 9 - Gender and psychiatric disorders.- Part III.- CHAPTER 10 - CHAPTER 10 - Biomarkers and new treatments for Alzheimer's disease.- CHAPTER 11 - Parkinson's disease, biomarkers and beyond.- Part IV.- CHAPTER 12 - The future: towards personalized medicine.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319834371
• ISBN13: 9783319834375
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Copernicus Books
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"