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

For this reason, more research into the health effects of air pollution exposure that goes beyond respiratory health outcomes into the realm of biological psychiatry is badly needed.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2022

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

The arrival of biological psychiatry, in the past few decades, was expected to clarify matters, by detailing how abnormalities in the brain gave rise to all variety of mental distress.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018

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

From Time Magazine Archive