Psychiatry: Looking to the Future

Massimo Cocchi^1,2

¹“Paolo Sotgiu” Institute for Research in Quantitative & Quantum Psychiatry & Cardiology, LUdeS, Lugano, Switzerland.
²Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

DOI: 10.4236/ojd.2015.44007                

Abstract

The aim of this letter is to stimulate the psychiatrists to a greater awareness on the biomolecular aspects of the psychopathology. The letter highlights the inconsistencies of the DSM-V, where, and once again, it ignores the biological consistency of the “psychopathological” phenomenon. It is also underlined that the diagnostic error, in course of the first manifestation of a mood disorder, is extremely high, with all the risk that this error involves, as a result of an incorrect medication therapy.

Keywords

DSMV, Psychopathology, Misdiagnosis, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Quantum Computation

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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