Biological psychiatry

approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous system

The heritability of autism

branch of biology

In genetic epidemiology, endophenotype (or intermediate phenotype) is a term used to separate behavioral symptoms into more stable phenotypes with a clear genetic connection. The concept was coined by Bernard John and Kenneth R. Lewis in a 1966 paper attempting to explain the geographic distribution of grasshoppers. They claimed that the particular geographic distribution could not be explained by the obvious and external "exophenotype" of the grasshoppers, but instead must be explained by their microscopic and internal "endophenotype". The concept has gained popularity in research on anxiety

dispute over which viewpoint should predominate and form a basis of psychiatric theory and practice; criticism of a claimed strict biological view of psychiatric thinking; includes disparate groups such as the antipsychiatry

scientific journal