Overview
- Explains how advances in genetics, imaging and behavioral analysis provide opportunities for biomarker identification in psychiatry
- Enriches understanding of the causes of mental illnesses and how they can be deconstructed into different neurobiological ‘constructs’ which can be shared across diagnostic categories
- Equips readers to understand the potential for biomarkers to be used to detect, diagnosis, predict treatment response and discover new interventions
Part of the book series: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences (CTBN, volume 40)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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About this book
This volume addresses one of the Holy Grails in Psychiatry, namely the evidence for and potential to adopt ‘Biomarkers’ for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment responses in mental health conditions. It meshes together state of the art research from international renowned pre-clinical and clinical scientists to illustrate how the fields of anxiety disorders, depression, psychotic disorders, and autism spectrum disorder have advanced in recent years.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biomarkers in Psychiatry
Editors: Judith Pratt, Jeremy Hall
Series Title: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99642-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99641-7Published: 17 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99642-4Published: 05 January 2019
Series ISSN: 1866-3370
Series E-ISSN: 1866-3389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 437
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Psychopharmacology, Behavioral Sciences, Animal Models, Neurobiology