Mental Illness And Brain Disease
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Mental Illness And Brain Disease.
It has become common to say psychiatric illnesses are brain diseases. This reflects a conception of the mental as being biologically based, though it is also thought that thinking of psychiatric illness this way will reduce the stigma attached to psychiatric illness. If psychiatric illnesses are brain diseases, however, it is not clear why psychiatry should not collapse into neurology, and some...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Folia Medica
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1314-2143
DOI: 10.1515/folmed-2015-0012