Mental Illnesses: Brain Diseases?.
- Author:
Young Hoon KIM
1
;
Jung Goo RHEE
Author Information
1. Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Institute of Neuroscience, Inje University, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords:
Brain;
Mind;
Mental illness
- MeSH:
Brain Diseases*;
Brain*
- From:Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
2002;41(1):12-16
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Mental illnesses were understood for centuries as affliction of spirit or mind. There were many efforts to reveal the nature of mind. In the past century, however, physicians recognized that psychiatric disorders are primarily diseases of the brain and that many mental illnesses are caused by abnormalities in the brain. For the evolution and development of psychiatry in the New Millenium, understanding the relationship between the brain and mind is inevitable. To understand the nature of mind, we must understand the nature of brain. The more we know the brain, the better understood are the truth of mind and it's disorders.
