biological psychiatry

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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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How to use biological psychiatry in a sentence

Eating disorders, on the other hand, are driven largely by biological processes that occur on the inside.
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We also have a growing body of biological research showing that fathers, like mothers, are hard-wired to care for children.
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Gender roles exceed the biological circumstances of childbirth and they are, perhaps, much less likely to change.
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Her adopted daughter tried to suffocate a younger biological sibling.
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Turning from biblical interpretation to psychiatry, the actor added, “I think the man was likely schizophrenic.”
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The biological doctrine of evolution was misinterpreted and misapplied to social policy.
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In short, birth was fortuitous, a product of circumstance plus proximity, its get a biological accident.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
But there is a wide gulf between that and concluding that all psycho-biological phenomena are hallucinations.
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The word monomania has been an unfortunate one for scientific psychiatry, because it has been abused to shield criminals.
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It is indispensable to check these against biological fact, in order to ascertain which are feasible and which are not.
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