- Gebundene Ausgabe: 257 Seiten
- Verlag: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S. (März 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0028615441
- ISBN-13: 978-0028615448
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 15,5 x 2,3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.540.124 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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This text examines how neurotransmitters work, and gives an account of research into behavioural disorders and what it tells us about our own functioning minds. The research described in this text shows how psychological problems stem from a combination of both environmental and inherited tendencies, and offers an alternative view of the long-standing debate between the "talk therapists" and the "drug therapists", and shows that both are needed to resolve mental health disorders.
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This text examines how neurotransmitters work, and gives an account of research into behavioural disorders and what it tells us about our own functioning minds. The research described in this text shows how psychological problems stem from a combination of both environmental and inherited tendencies, and offers an alternative view of the long-standing debate between the "talk therapists" and the "drug therapists", and shows that both are needed to resolve mental health disorders.
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authoritative and compassionate overview of mental illness
8. August 1997
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This is a book for anyone who has ever been depressed and wondered about taking medication, for anyone who has ever worried about his own mental health or had concerns about friends and family. Dr. Siever gives us a comprehensive introduction to all the major psychiatric diseases and disorders, illustrated with numerous case studies--of the narcissistic or histrionic personality, of dpression, of obsessive compulsive disorder. His stories are illuminating and compassionate.
The field of psychiatry is undergoing a "biological revolution." To discover the causes of mental illness, we can now look beyond inadequate parenting, sibling rivalry and the oedipus complex to the less well-trodden realm of neurotransmitters and receptors, of genetics and biology. In technical areas Siever offers helpful analogies and, for the uninitiated, is an authoritative and patient guide
The field of psychiatry is undergoing a "biological revolution." To discover the causes of mental illness, we can now look beyond inadequate parenting, sibling rivalry and the oedipus complex to the less well-trodden realm of neurotransmitters and receptors, of genetics and biology. In technical areas Siever offers helpful analogies and, for the uninitiated, is an authoritative and patient guide
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26. September 2005
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The Authors, Siever & Frucht, found some new jargon to mediate the old battle between genetic and environmental factors in mental illness. All they managed to say is that genes don't exist in a vacuum. But they did manage a couple of good metaphors to show How Genes and Neurotransmitters Shape Your Mind. Their book reads like a textbook and is not for the lay reader.
One metaphor they used was the thermostat. Brain states are determined by whether neurons fire or don't fire. In other words, whether signals pass through the walls of the neuron's membrane. Neurons in various sections of the brain function as a thermostat to set their sensitivity to neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine and acetylcholine. The receptors for these neurotransmitters are embedded in the neuron's membranes. Thus, states of mind depend upon the ion flow of chloride, calcium and sodium through these receptors embedded in the membranes. The unseen hand setting the thermostat could be either brain made proteins or ingested drugs, all of which can either excite or inhibit neuron firing. To demonstrate how opaque this field is, the Authors included quantum physics in their discussion. Probabilities, depending on the 3-D heat fluctuations of proteins, can determine whether a protein fits a receptor and whether firing occurs.
The Authors made Herculean attempts to connect the flow of neurotransmitters to one's personality. But factors like one's impulsivity are far more abstract and not quite like high cholesterol as the Authors suggest. In other words the Authors were stretching their metaphors in a rather desperate attempt to put a new face on mental illness. Evidently we are still miles away from any concrete understanding of mental illness.
One metaphor they used was the thermostat. Brain states are determined by whether neurons fire or don't fire. In other words, whether signals pass through the walls of the neuron's membrane. Neurons in various sections of the brain function as a thermostat to set their sensitivity to neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine and acetylcholine. The receptors for these neurotransmitters are embedded in the neuron's membranes. Thus, states of mind depend upon the ion flow of chloride, calcium and sodium through these receptors embedded in the membranes. The unseen hand setting the thermostat could be either brain made proteins or ingested drugs, all of which can either excite or inhibit neuron firing. To demonstrate how opaque this field is, the Authors included quantum physics in their discussion. Probabilities, depending on the 3-D heat fluctuations of proteins, can determine whether a protein fits a receptor and whether firing occurs.
The Authors made Herculean attempts to connect the flow of neurotransmitters to one's personality. But factors like one's impulsivity are far more abstract and not quite like high cholesterol as the Authors suggest. In other words the Authors were stretching their metaphors in a rather desperate attempt to put a new face on mental illness. Evidently we are still miles away from any concrete understanding of mental illness.
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