Considering the major mental disorders as clinical expressions of periodic pathological oscillations of the overall operating mode of brain function

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 395-400

  Pediaditakis, Nicholas ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOZAPINE; INSULIN; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PENTETRAZOLE;

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMORBIDITY; COORDINATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EMOTION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROMODULATION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OSCILLATION; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEMPERAMENT; THINKING; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

BRAIN; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RECURRENCE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 33744731757     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.09.015     Document Type: Article

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