Psychiatric Disease: Metabolic and Immune Abnormalities

A psychiatric disease is a mental illness which significantly disrupts the thinking, behavior and mood of an individual and severely increases the risk of pain, death, disability or loss of freedom. There are various categories of psychiatric diseases including anxiety disorders, depression, addictive behaviors, schizophrenia, personality disorders and eating disorders. Symptoms of psychiatric diseases comprise drug or alcohol abuse, suicidal thinking, confused thinking, inability to handle daily problems and stress, extreme tiredness, sleeping problems and more. Schizophrenia is a serious psychiatric disease. It result in detachment from reality and people having this diseases experience disorganized speech and thinking, delusions, and hallucinations. Anxiety involves focusing on dangerous and bad things, which can happen and worrying about them excessively. It also comprises phobias such as irrational fears in regards to particular things like height. This book explores all the important aspects of psychiatry in the present day scenario. It presents researches and studies performed by experts across the globe. This book is appropriate for students seeking detailed information in this area as well as for experts.