Molecular Psychiatry is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous system. It is interdisciplinary in its approach and draws on sciences such as neuroscience, psychopharmacology, biochemistry, genetics, epigenetics and physiology to investigate the biological bases of behavior and psychopathology. Biopsychiatry is the branch of medicine which deals with the study of the biological function of the nervous system in mental disorders.
In the present book, ten typical literatures about Molecular Psychiatry published on international authoritative journals were selected to introduce the worldwide newest progress, which contains reviews or original researches on Molecular Psychiatry. We hope this book can demonstrate advances in Molecular Psychiatry as well as give references to the researchers, students and other related people.