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Psychiatry
This is a medical specialty that deals with prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of different forms of mental suffering, from organic or functional origin, with severe psychological manifestations.
A few examples include depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders.
The main goal is to relieve suffering and welfare psychic. For this you need a full evaluation the patient, which involves the person's medical history and an examination of his mental state.
Often the psychiatrist uses psychological tests, neurological, neuropsychological and imaging studies as aids in the assessment as well as laboratory tests. |
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