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

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 • Oct. 14, 2025

Dan Quintana, a senior researcher in biological psychiatry at the University of Oslo in Norway, posted the video to Twitter Sunday, alongside the caption: "Rabbits love getting stroked on their nose."

From Fox News • Aug. 21, 2019

Despite billions of dollars in research funding, and thousands of journal articles, biological psychiatry has given doctors and patients little of practical value, never mind a cause or a cure.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018

The same dark regions in Fallon’s neuroimaging self-portrait that shocked him and instantly captured his attention, had captured the attention of other researchers interested in biological psychiatry years earlier.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2014

Yet it is only one of the promising developments being pursued in the hot new field of biological psychiatry.

From Time Magazine Archive