O DSM-6 tentará integrar a neurobiologia à forma como os médicos diagnosticam e tratam os transtornos psiquiátricos: parte do desafio de encontrar um biomarcador para doenças mentais está na influência significativa do ambiente. rudall30/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Próxima edição da ‘Bíblia’ da psiquiatria vai usar pela primeira vez a biologia para entender transtornos mentais

Apesar dos avanços na neurociência, a biologia subjacente às doenças mentais continua um mistério
Part of the challenge of finding a biomarker for mental illness is the environment’s significant influence. rudall30/iStock via Getty Images Plus

I’m part of the team writing the next bible of psychiatry – for the first time, the DSM will use biology to understand mental disorders

Despite advances in neuroscience, the underlying biology of mental illness has remained elusive. The DSM-6 will attempt to integrate neurobiology into how clinicians diagnose and treat psychiatric conditions.
Researchers are in the earliest phase of piecing together how the shingles vaccine could play a role in lowering the risk of dementia. PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Vaccines hold tantalizing promise in the fight against dementia

A prominent Nature study and related research raise the possibility that vaccines may have a broader role in experimental therapeutics outside the realm of infectious diseases.

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