PSYCHIATRIC

Psychiatry

Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of mental illnesses, abnormal behaviors, emotional disturbances.
The psychiatrist clinically assesses the patient by studying biological, neurological and biochemical abnormalities, then makes the diagnosis and finally determines the appropriate treatment for him.
Some of the disorders that are treated in the department of psychiatry are:

Personality disorders

Somatoform disorders

Hypochondritis, body dysmorphic disorder, conversion disorder, etc

Obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress

Dementias

Psychiatric syndromes

etc.