[Clinical research in psychiatry. Future prospects].
Psychiatry becomes everyday more scientific: inter-rater reliability improves constantly, thanks to the development of more rigorous methods. Diagnostic classifications make real headways: the gap between ICD-9 and DSM-III will certainly be reduced in the next few years. For instance, the introduction of sub-categories of anxiety states (or anxiety neuroses), such as panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, implies different treatment choice, and clarification in therapeutic indications. The same will happen probably soon for schizophrenic disorders and major affective disorders. Conflicting theories of organogenesis versus psychogenesis may not be so conflicting when we understand better how environmental signals and subjective experiences alter transmitter levels, receptors, and synaptic regulations.
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Recherche clinique en psychiatrie. perspectives d'avenir.