Table of Contents

Part I.- CHAPTER 1 – Psychiatric disorders as “whole body” diseases.- CHAPTER 2 – Treatment of psychiatric disorders: time for a paradigm change?.- CHAPTER 3 – The importance of biomarkers: the required tools of the trade.- Part II.- CHAPTER 4 – Schizophrenia and the mind-body connection.- CHAPTER 5 – Progress for better treatment of depression.- CHAPTER 6 - The special case of bipolar disorder.- CHAPTER 7 – The worrying case of anxiety and stress-related disorders.- CHAPTER 8 - The autism spectrum conditions and the extreme male brain syndrome.- CHAPTER 9 – Gender and psychiatric disorders.- Part III.- CHAPTER 10 – CHAPTER 10 - Biomarkers and new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.- CHAPTER 11 – Parkinson’s disease, biomarkers and beyond.- Part IV.- CHAPTER 12 – The future: towards personalized medicine.

About the Author

Paul Guest, PhD has over 25 years of experience in academic and pharmaceutical company environments in designing, carrying out and documenting all aspects of pre-clinical and clinical studies with a focus on psychiatric disorders, metabolic disorders and stem cell therapeutics. He possesses a diverse set of skills in genomic/proteomic areas including immunological, protein-protein interactions, detection technologies, robotics, functional assays and bioinformatic analyses. He has published more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals and contributed over 20 chapters to various contributed volumes.

Reviews

“This text offers some interesting insights into how and why there has been such a slow understanding of the pathophysiology of mental illness. It sheds light on how complex metabolic and cellular forces as well as brain structures interact. … medical students considering residency in psychiatry would benefit.” (Pollyanna V. Casmar, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (14), April, 2017)