Endocrine Psychiatry: Solving the Riddle of Melancholia - Rilegato

Shorter, Edward; Fink, Max

 
9780199737468: Endocrine Psychiatry: Solving the Riddle of Melancholia
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0199737460 ISBN 13: 9780199737468
Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2010

Sinossi

The riddle of melancholia has stumped generations of doctors. It is a serious depressive illness that often leads to suicide and premature death. The disease's link to biology has been intensively studied. Unlike almost any other psychiatric disorder, melancholia sufferers have abnormal endocrine functions. Tests capable of separating melancholia from other mood disorders were useful discoveries, but these tests fell into disuse as psychiatrists lost interest in biology and medicine. In the nineteenth century, theories about the role of endocrine organs encouraged endocrine treatments that loomed prominently in practice. This interest faded in the 1930s but was revived by the discovery of the adrenal hormone cortisol and descriptions of its abnormal functioning in melancholic and psychotic depressed patients. New endocrine tests were devised to plumb the secrets of mood disorders. Two colorful individuals, Bernard Carroll and Edward Sachar, led this revival and for a time in the 1960s and 1970s intensive research interest established connections between hormone dysfunctions and behavior. In the 1980s, psychiatrists lost interest in hormonal approaches largely because they did not correlate with the arbitrary classification of mood disorders. Today the relation between endocrines and behavior have been disregarded.

This history traces the enthusiasm of biological efforts to solve the mystery of melancholia and their fall. Using vibrant language accessible to family care practitioners, psychiatrists and interested lay readers, the authors propose that a useful, a potentially live-saving connection between medicine and psychiatry, has been lost.

Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Informazioni sull?autore

Edward Shorter, PhD
Professor of the History of Medicine
Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine
Professor of Psychiatry
Faculty of MedicineUniversity of Toronto

Max Fink, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Emeritus
School of Medicine
State University of New York at Stony Brook
New York, NY

Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Editore
OUP USA
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0199737460
ISBN 13 
9780199737468
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
208
Contatto del produttore
Messaggerie Libri
ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it

Via Verdi, 8.
Assago Milano
20090
Italia