Can Biological Interventions Change Mind?.
- Author:
Jong Han PARK
1
Author Information
1. Department of Psychiatry, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords:
Biological interventions;
Brain;
Mind
- MeSH:
Brain;
Humans;
Neurosciences;
Risk Factors
- From:Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
2002;41(1):18-28
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
It is doubtless that the mind or behaviors could be modified through biological interventions, either invasive or noninvasive. Those changes may be negative or pathological, and may be positive or normalizing. However, further advances in psychiatry and neurosciences they could be more and more desirable, variaous, and specific in direction. Researchers in the fields of psychiatry and neurosciences focused and are focusing their activities mainly on causes of and risk factors for mental illnesses. Some persons with high risk for mental illness, genetically or environmentally, cope very well without psychiatric manifestations. Our future studies should include resilience or invulnerability which is thought to protect the predisposed persons from mental illnesses.
