Bases biológicas dos transtornos psiquiátricos

Abstract

The breakthrough related to the biological foundations of mental disorders in the last ten years hampers psychiatrists to learn, organize and synthesize the information, as to develop a comprehensive and integrated view of this field of knowledge. This task will be enormously facilitated for those who would dedicate themselves to the reading of the second edition of 'Biological foundations of psychiatric disorders'. These renowned authors accomplished the Herculean task of transmitting these updated knowledge in a didactic way. Modestly, they have admitted that any attempt of systematization in this area would be incomplete. They managed, however, to reflect the progress in the major areas which constitute the current biological psychiatry. The text is structured in five sections: 1) The central nervous system; 2) Neuropsychological assessment; 3) Biological treatments; 4) Psychiatric disorders and; 5) New developments.