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Basic neuroscience: critical issues for understanding psychiatric disorders
R J Steingard1, C Schmidt, J T Coyle
1Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Adolescent Medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.)
|August 29, 2000
Abstract:
Recent scientific advances in understanding the function and plasticity of the central nervous system have opened fundamental insights into the pathophysiology of various mental disorders. This chapter reviews the basic physiology of the central nervous system, and further focuses on the applications of the new knowledge to clinical psychiatry.