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Biological psychiatry covers an extensive and rapidly changing area. Limited in the 1950s and early 1960s largely to psychopharmacology, some attempts at diagnosis, and early broad-brush attempts at explicating etiology (most notably through genetics), the advance of biological psychiatry grew steadily in the succeeding fifteen years, and today it is flush with excitement. What follows are some major trends and investigative lines.
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Pardes, H. (1989). Psychiatry, Biological. In: Abnormal States of Brain and Mind. Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience . Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6768-8_41
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