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Perspectives on Neuroscience
Published on: July 31, 2007
Neuroscience in pictures:1. History of psychiatric neuroscience
Matcheri S Keshavan1, Seo Ho Michael Song1, Yelu Zhang1
1Beth Israel deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Abstract:
Our understanding of the brain basis of mental illness has evolved over three and half millennia. Early insights into the role of the brain in relation to the mind faded during the middle ages as mental illness became the province of religion, spirituality, and philosophy. Psychiatry became a medical discipline again as medical and scientific thinking evolved during the 17th century. However, progress in neuroscience and astute clinical observations were punctuated by setbacks due to lingering dualism, reductionistic thinking, and dogma. Accelerating neuroscience discoveries and methodological innovations are beginning to bring neuroscience and psychiatry closer than ever as we begin the 21st century, This pictorial article seeks to briefly highlight this journey for an early trainee in psychiatry and related professions in mind.
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