title: [Social psychiatry and neurobiology : A long overdue convergence exemplified by schizophrenia].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The proliferation of biological psychiatry has greatly increased over the last two decades. With the possibility to carry out brain research using modern technical methods, it seemed that social influencing factors would lose importance in the development of mental diseases; however, in actual fact this does not seem to be justified. It is necessary to overcome this separation, in that social factors are incorporated into a conceptual framework in the development of mental diseases, which simultaneously also takes the results of current neurobiological research into consideration.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aims of this review article are to summarize the current state of sociopsychiatric research and to emphasize the perspectives of the biological principles and their validity with respect to the social dimensions of psychiatry, as exemplified by schizophrenic disorders. The article presents the options for a biosocial approach in social psychiatry and gives an overview of the currently available literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is an abundance of neurobiological research approaches, which are closely associated with sociopsychiatric topics, such as social cognition. Social psychiatry and biological psychiatry should no longer be considered as diametrically opposed subdisciplines. On the contrary, the options which could emerge from a synthesis must be used in research and clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Zentrum für Soziale Psychiatrie, Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich, Militärstr. 8, Postfach 1930, 8021, Zürich, Schweiz. wolfram.kawohl@puk.zh.ch.|Universität Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz. wolfram.kawohl@puk.zh.ch.|Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Deutschland. wolfram.kawohl@puk.zh.ch.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kawohl
authors.affiliation: Zentrum für Soziale Psychiatrie, Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich, Militärstr. 8, Postfach 1930, 8021, Zürich, Schweiz.|Universität Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wyss
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Präventivmedizin, LWL-Universitätsklinik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Deutschland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Roser
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Präventivmedizin, LWL-Universitätsklinik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Deutschland.|Forschungsabteilung für Kognitive Neuropsychiatrie und Psychiatrische Präventivmedizin, LWL-Universitätsklinik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Deutschland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brüne
authors.affiliation: Universität Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz.|Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Deutschland.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rössler
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Präventivmedizin, LWL-Universitätsklinik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Deutschland.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Juckel
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003158:Community Psychiatry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D000075762:Interdisciplinary Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009446:Neurobiology / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy
keywords: Biological psychiatry; Cognition, social; Electroencephalographie EEG; Functioning social; Magnetic resonance imaging, functional; Neuroscience