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Psychiatry is the medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of psychiatric disorders (“mental illnesses”) including problems of perception, thought, mood and emotions, as well as alcohol and drug abuse. Such disorders may have many sources, both physiological (such as genetic disorders, general medical illnesses, and local brain disease or dysfunction), and experiential (such as childhood trauma, emotional loss, and other stresses of living).

Advances in neuroscience enable a better understanding of the nervous system and its interaction with the rest of the body. There are ever more sophisticated tests and imaging that enhance, but do not replace the crucial tool of face-to-face dialogue which enables a psychiatrist to understand what is bothering a patient, so that solutions may be found.