Biological psychiatry: time for new paradigms.
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چکیده
Biological psychiatry has not yet produced clinically viable biomarkers for any of the major psychiatric diseases, and the past 25 years have not brought any fundamentally new biological treatment principles. I discuss reasons for this slow progress and suggest avenues for the development of biomarkers and the discovery of new treatment targets.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
دوره 202 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013