Endocrine psychiatry
Subtitle: solving the riddle of melancholia
By: by Edward Shorter, Max Fink.
Contributors: Fink, Max, 1923-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199737468
Subjects: Depression, Mental -- Endocrine aspects -- Research -- History; Depressive Disorder -- history; Depressive Disorder -- complications; Endocrine System Diseases -- complications; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Neuroendocrinology -- history; Psychophysiology -- history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early days; title: Cortisol; title: Barney Carroll and Ed Sachar; title: The DST in use; title: Trouble; title: "The most exciting development in the endocrine study of depression"; title: The fall of endocrine psychiatry.