Psychiatry: the reboot starts here

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2968, 2014, págs. 10-11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There are no blood tests or brain scans for mental illnesses so diagnoses are subjective and unreliable. The issue came to a head one year ago this May 2014, with the latest edition of psychiatry's "bible", the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The US National Institute for Mental Health said the DSM-5 had so many problems people effectively need to tear it up and start again. Criticism of psychiatry has been growing for years--existing treatments are often inadequate, and myriad advances in neuroscience and genetics have not translated into anything better. Here, Wilson discusses neuroscience-based mental healthcare