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Combines a multi- disciplinary approach to shed light on new insights that point towards involvement of the whole body in the course of psychiatric disorders
The book covers everything from the history of psychiatric research to the current state-of-the art in psychiatric practice and the impact that this is having on emerging biomarker discoveries
Incorporates personalized medicine approaches into these processes to help move psychiatric medicine into the 21stcentury
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Brief History of Biomarkers and Mental Illness
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Psychiatric Diseases
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Neurodegenerative Disorders
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The Future
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About this book
Employing accessible language throughout, this book covers the history of psychiatric research, the current state-of-the art in psychiatric practice, the physiological systems affected by psychiatric illnesses, the whole-body nature of these diseases and the impact that this aspect has on emerging biomarker discoveries.
Further, it provides descriptions of the major specific psychiatric disorders and the special challenges regarding the diagnosis and treatment of each. The book concludes with insights into the latest developments in hand-held biomarker test devices, which can provide diagnostic information in less than 15 minutes in point-of-care settings.
This book investigates the emerging use of biomarkers in the study of psychiatric diseases, a topic of considerable importance for a broad range of people including researchers, clinicians, psychiatrists, university students and even those whose lives are affected in some way by a psychiatric illness. The last category is hardly trivial, since a staggering one in three people worldwide show the criteria for at least one psychiatric disorder at some point in their lifetime.
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Charlesworth House, Debden, United Kingdom
Paul C. Guest
About the author
Paul Guest, PhD has over 25 years of experience in academic and pharmaceutical company environments in designing, carrying out and documenting all aspects of pre-clinical and clinical studies with a focus on psychiatric disorders, metabolic disorders and stem cell therapeutics. He possesses a diverse set of skills in genomic/proteomic areas including immunological, protein-protein interactions, detection technologies, robotics, functional assays and bioinformatic analyses. He has published more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals and contributed over 20 chapters to various contributed volumes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biomarkers and Mental Illness
Book Subtitle: It’s Not All in the Mind
Authors: Paul C. Guest
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46088-8
Publisher: Copernicus Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-46087-1Published: 16 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83437-5Published: 30 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46088-8Published: 02 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 203
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Bioinformatics, Human Genetics, Psychiatry