Integrative Biological Psychiatry

ISBN-13: 9783642771705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 295 str.

Hinderk M. Emrich; Michael Wiegand

Opis

The important feature of this work is the integration of ethology, anthropological aspects, relevance of development disorders of human communication with neuropsychological, neuropharmacological and clinical review. The main result of this book is the finding that psychiatric disorders have to be regarded as systemic illnesses and that the different levels of organization from molecular biology up to ethology and communication have to be recognized. The costumers can expect to be informed about present state and future perspectives of several main topics of biological psychiatry. The ethological foundations of Biological Psychiatry as derived from animal models in primates, in combination with early integrative communicative development and genetic leading to a systems- theory of psychoses. Furthermore, peptide research, the work on the clinical basis of effects of anticonvulvants in affective disorders and the development of animal models of anorexia nervosa leading to clinical aspects of this topic, represents the second part. In the fields of chronobiology and sleep research recent findings regarding annual cycles and recent insights into the functional role of day-time naps following therapeutic sleep deprivation are reported. Furthermore, the theory of schizo-affective psychoses in relation to Kraepelins paradigms as well as other problems of classification, theories about comorbidity and findings in alcoholism research are discussed under recent pathophysiological aspects.

Spis treści

I: Perspectives of Ethology, Development, and Systems Biology.- 1 Ethological Foundations of Biological Psychiatry.- 2 Monkey Calls as a Model for the Neurobiological Investigation of Emotional Vocal Expression in Man.- 3 Early Integrative and Communicative Development: Pointers to Humanity.- 4 Analysis of Fine Motor Problems in Children with Specific Developmental Disorders of Speech and Language.- 5 What Is Old and What Is New in the Genetics of Endogenous Psychoses?.- 6 Systems Theory of Psychosis: “Filtering”, Comparison, Error Correction, and Its Defects.- II: Psychiatric Neuropharmacology and Neurochemistry.- 7 Peptides as Neuronal Signalling Molecules.- 8 Physiological Role of ß-Nerve Growth Factor and Its Possible Pathophysiological Implication in the Central Nervous System.- 9 Anticonvulsants and Calcium Antagonists in the Treatment of Psychotic Disorders.- 10 Hyperactivity and Semistarvation in the Rat: An Animal Model for Anorexia Nervosa.- 11 Effect of Starvation on Brain Morphology and Function in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.- III: Psychiatric Aspects of Chronobiology and Sleep.- 12 On Self-Assessed Mood and Efficiency During Long-Term Isolation.- 13 Possible Relations Between Disorders in Circadian Rhythmicity and Mental Disorders.- 14 Periodic Phenomena in Affective Illness with Special Reference to Annual Cycles.- 15 Reversal of Antidepressant Sleep Deprivation Effects by Daytime Naps.- IV: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Aspects.- 16 The New Classification Systems in Psychiatry: Overview, Problems, and Consequences.- 17 Schizoaffective Psychosis: A Challenge to Kraepelin’s Paradigm?.- 18 The Concept of Comorbidity in Psychiatry and Its Influence on Research of Risk Factors.- 19 Results of Inpatient Treatment of Alcoholics: Follow-Ups After 18 and 48 Months (Munich Evaluation of Alcoholism Treatment, MEAT).- 20 Psychophysical Differentiation of Pain by Threshold Methods.- 21 Problems with the Precise Treatment of Imprecise “Givens”.

O autorze

Hinderk M. Emrich, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil., seit 1992 Leiter der Abt. Klinische Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover. Wesentliche Forschungsgebiete: Psychopharmakologie, Wahrnehmungspsychologie und Systemtheorie von Psychosen, Synästhesie. Zusätzliche wissenschaftliche Interessen: analytische Philosophie des Geistes, Psychoanalyse nach C.G. Jung, Medientheorie, Tiefenpsycholo-gie des Films. Veröffentlichungen: Psychiatrische Anthropologie (1990), Vom Nutzen des Vergessens (1996), Antikonvulsiva in der Psychiatrie (2000), Welche Farbe hat der Montag? Synästhesie: Das Leben mit verknüpften Sinnen (2001), Psyche und Transzendenz (2002), Facetten der Sucht (2006) Michael Wiegand ist Experte in der CAD-Methodenentwicklung und seit vielen Jahren in den Bereichen CAD-Beratung, -Training und -Support tätig.