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biological psychiatry

noun

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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Nearby words

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Related forms

biological psychiatrist, noun
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