title: The importance of neuropsychopharmacology in the development of psychiatry.
abstract: The author establishes that Psychiatry has been in a difficult situation especially in Hungary since closing down the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology. He reviews the most important factors which hold up the development of Psychiatry. He settles that the development of Psychiatry is inconceivable without a person's holistic approach which assumes the biological, mental, cultural-social and spiritual approach. Disturbances of perception have particular roles in the formation of psychopathological symptoms which are based on the operation of the nervous system. This fact emphasises the importance of the nervous system and the neuropsychopharmacology which we have known since the beginning of history although it is hardly half a century old. He pays the attention to the psychoactive medicine that was well-known in the ancient civilization. He reviews some of them which were actually the first neuropsychopharmacological pharmaceuticals. He emphasises the dichotomy of the psychopathological symptoms which are partly objective, partly subjective but based on the operation of the nervous system by all means. His statements not only establish a new kind of approach of both the person and the Psychiatry but enables the development of Psychiatry, the creation of a new sort of diagnostic system, eliminating the variance among the experts dealing with people, the neurologists, the psychiatrists, the psychologists, the sociologists, the philosophers and the theologians, ensuring the biological (neurological), psychological, cultural and spiritual perpetuity. The biological, genetic, psychic, cultural-social and spiritual approach, the application of nanomedicine that enable not only recognising the organic neurological bases of the psychiatric disorders that are all crucial for the future researchers but also essential in the development of the neuropsychopharmacology based on the function of the nervous system.
authors.affiliation: Private practice, Kecskemét, Hungary. kalm-r@t-online.hu.
authors.forename: Sandor
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kalmár
mesh_terms: D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D007194:India; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D009229:Mythology; D009484:Neuropsychology; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D011600:Psychopharmacology; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000266:history / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs