Molecules and Mental Illness ("Scientific American" Library)

by S.H.Barondes (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $3.39

  This text explains the biological foundations of mental illness, and the impact of findings on the pharmacological treatment of those illnesses. The first half of the book discusses the molecular and genetic causes of mental illnesses; while the second half looks at psychiatric disorders through the eyes of sufferers of manic depression, schizophrenia, phobias and sufferers of compulsive disorders. The book also includes coverage of late-1990s' research and treatment.