The field of voice ranges from acoustics and aerodynamics, to the biomechanics of voice, articulation, and resonance, to voice training, vocal ergonomics, and vocal hygiene, to the complex neurologic, psychiatric, and sociological basis of interpersonal communication.
ANY discussion of the biological basis of psychiatric disorders must include genetics.
Dr. Joseph Buxbaum, an expert on the molecular basis of psychiatric disease at Mount Sinai Medical Center, said Dr. Enard's team had taken a good first step toward understanding the role of FOXP2 in the development of the brain.
While engaged in clinical research at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, Towson, Md .(1923 30), Sullivan became acquainted with the psychiatrist Adolf Meyer, whose practical psychotherapy emphasized psychological and social factors, rather than neuropathology, as the basis for psychiatric disorders.
Irv and Jerry proposed in their 1972 book, Schizophrenia and Genetics, that the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders could be better understood, and specific genes more readily identified, by the discovery of biological characteristics that lie a step closer to DNA than the clinically observable symptoms and signs, the "exophenotypes", by which disorders are defined.
And on a personal basis, a psychiatric diagnosis may be welcome (having a name and a treatment plan for what's bothering us can be comforting) or not (are we really suffering from a mental disorder if we seem depressed after a family member dies?).
Chronic headache tends to aggregate with anxiety and depression; nevertheless, it is not clinically sound to justify the association of headache and sleep disturbance solely on the basis of psychiatric co-morbidity [1].
Thirteen healthy volunteers (9 females and 4 males, age 24.9±7.3; mean ± SD) were determined to be free from medical or psychiatric conditions on the basis of clinical history and a physical examination.
This question is particularly relevant in order to clarify the biological basis of psychiatric diseases, such as OCD, in which a dysfunction in error processing (obsession) leads to the maintenance of inappropriate behavior (compulsion) [40].
Background Trichotillomania (repetitive hair-pulling) is an Axis I psychiatric disorder whose neurobiological basis is incompletely understood.
