biological psychiatry

American  

noun

1. a school of psychiatric thought concerned with the medical treatment of mental disorders, especially through medication, and emphasizing the relationship between behavior and brain function and the search for physical causes of mental illness.

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Other Word Forms

• biological psychiatrist noun

Example Sentences

When asked what brings him the most pride, he points not to the major honors he has received, including the Julius Axelrod Prize for Mentorship, the Gold Medal Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry, election to the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine, and honorary doctorates from Uppsala University and Concordia University.

From Science Daily

Early results suggest that mothers in the singing group saw a "nice steady decline in those levels throughout the intervention period," according to Carmine Pariante, professor of biological psychiatry at Kings College London.

From BBC

A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published by Elsevier, examined the relationship of the engagement of emotion regulation to real-world responses to stress in order to better understand stress-related increases in suicide risk in depression.

From Science Daily

Editor-in-Chief of Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Cameron S. Carter, MD, University of California Irvine, comments, "Flexibility in emotion regulation is generally understood to be a marker of psychological health. However, in the current study researchers found that reflexively engaging emotion regulation in the face of unexpected stressors may not be helpful or effective in all circumstances. These findings, which leverage functional imaging combined with real-world in the moment assessments, are important to further our understanding of how to effectively deal with stress in daily life."

From Science Daily

Commenting on the findings, John Krystal, MD, Editor of Biological Psychiatry, says, "Arachidonic acid is typically a widely present omega-6 fatty acid in the body and brain that contributes to the health of cell membranes. This study provides a fascinating step forward in the effort to develop blood biomarkers of bipolar disorder risk, particularly in those patients with bipolar disorder and risk gene variations in the FADS1/2/3 gene cluster."

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