Psychiatric Research

Psychiatric Research

One of the important ways to enhance knowledge and understanding about psychiatric illness and their management is through research. Psychiatric research has kept is due important position in psychiatric practice since last many decades. Without research it might be impossible to appropriately manage any given psychiatric case with proper rationale. The significance of research in psychiatry is...

Psychiatric Research

This booklet consists of the addresses delivered at the opening of the new laboratory for biochemical research at McLean Hospital. Cecil K. Drinker reviews the history of research at McLean Hospital. Jordi Foich surveys biochemical research in psychiatry with emphasis on his own contributions to the chemical constitution of the brain. The record of reasearch at the Psychiatric Service of the Ma...

Psychiatric Research

Optogenetics: Applications in psychiatric research: Optogenetics for psychiatric research

Recently, optogenetic techniques have emerged as a method to optically manipulate molecular and cellular events in target cells both in vitro and in vivo. Optogenetics results from the fruitful combination of optics and genetic engineering, maximizing the advantages of each discipline. These advantages are optical control through the manipulation of wavelength and light intensity on the millise...

Prospects on Psychiatric Research

This book is the proceedings of the Oxford Conference held in March 1952 by the Mental Health Research Fund, to which were invited leading figures of the various disciplines concerned with research on mental health. These included naturally a high proportion of psychiatrists of different schoo's but the discussion centred on ignorances in the anatomical field was opened by professors of anatomy...