Research Links

Psychopathology (Definition and History)

http://syked.com/psychology101/psychopathology.html
A web chapter on psychopathology including history and diagnoses.

http://www.ar.cc.mn.us/biederman/courses/p2250/eras.htm
A chart of psychopathological theories throughout time.

http://www.bigeye.com/szasz.htm
A website dedicated to Thomas Szasz. Szasz is highly critical of the medical model of psychopathology.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud/ex/22.html
A brief look at Sigmund Freud and his unfinished work, "Project for a Scientific Psychology."

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/kitcher
MIT's entry on Sigmund Freud.

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Watson/views.htm
A web version of John Watson's "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It."

http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Psych/rwozniak/watson.html
An essay on Watson and his impact on behaviorism.

http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Psych/rwozniak/behaviorism.html
An essay on early behaviorism.

http://websrv.ucsu.edu/facstaff/tbrown/Obits.dir/Kraepelin.html
A biography of Emil Kraepelin, who first attempted to classify psychopathologies into different diagnoses.

http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0175/01769984_A.html#top
A description of syphilis with a link to a brief biography of Hideyo Noguchi. Niguchi discovered the bacterium responsible for syphilis.

http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/Psych435/Tutorial/
A tutorial on the DSM-IV and mental illnesses, from a course at Athabasca University.

Schizophrenia

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/schiz.html
A basic but very detailed site on schizophrenia.

http://www.schizophrenia.com/
A comprehensive resource and information site on schizophrenia.

http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-ps01.html
A list of excellent schizophrenia links.

http://www.priory.com/psych/aetioschiz.htm
Etiologies of schizophrenia.

http://www.behavior.org/BehaviorDigest/V9n1/digest_V9n1_schizophrenia.cfm
A criticism of the genetic theory of schizophrenia.

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper2/Frederickson2.html
An essay on the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia.

http://www.utexas.edu/research/asrec/dopamine.html
A look at the neurotransmitter dopamine.

http://www.tocris.com/dopamine.htm
Dopamine receptors, agonists, and antagonists.

http://www.williams.edu/imput/IIIB5.html
Antipsychotics and the mechanism of their action (with a quicktime movie).

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dh52dr.html
A history of the use of chlorpromazine (Thorazine) in treating schizophrenia.

http://www.gbhap.com/magazines/neuroscience/2-2-focus.htm
Psychiatry uses anatomy and physiology to explain schizophrenia.

http://www.acnp.org/G4/GN401000120/CH118.html
An overview of neurocognitive functioning in schizophrenia.

http://www.sfn.org/briefings/schizophrenia.html
A Society for Neuroscience article on the prefrontal cortex and schizophrenia.

http://samiam.colorado.edu/~mcclella/expersim/introschizophrenia.html
Experimental simulation in which one manipulates variables related to the etiology of schizophrenia.

Mood Disorders

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depression.cfm
The National Institute of Mental Health's site on depression. Includes an excellent resource list.

http://www.allaboutdepression.com/
An encyclopedic website on depression.

http://www.sciam.com/1998/0698issue/0698nemeroff.html
A Scientific American article on the neurobiology of depression.

http://www.acnp.org/G4/GN401000096/CH094.html
The neuroendocrinology of depression.

http://www.brainplace.com/bp/atlas/ch7.asp
Images of brains of depression patients.

http://www.mentalhealth.com/book/p40-sad.html
Seasonal affective disorder.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/bipolar.html
A basic look at bipolar disorder.

http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis1/fr21.html
Bipolar disorder links.

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro99/web1/Bromwell.html
Biological theories of bipolar disorder.

Anxiety Disorders

http://www.algy.com/anxiety/anxiety.html
The anxiety disorders.

http://www.anxietynetwork.com/
The Anxiety Network offers links to websites on social anxiety, generalized anxiety, and panic disorder.

http://www.brainplace.com/bp/atlas/ch11.asp
Images of the brains of anxiety patients.

http://www.acnp.org/G4/GN401000128/CH126.html
Pharmacotherapy of anxiety disorders.

http://www.phobialist.com/
A list of all known phobias.

http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-an05.html
Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

http://members.aol.com/avpsyrich/sysden.htm
Systematic desensitization as a treatment for anxiety and phobias.

Sociopathy

http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-pe04.html
Antisocial personality disorder: description, diagnosis, and treatment.

Dementing Diseases

http://www.neuropat.dote.hu/dementia.htm
A very complete reference on dementias from the Online Handbook of Neurology.

http://www.alzbrain.org/gallery.htm
Images of the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

http://www.alzforum.org/members/research/images
Links to images of Alzheimer's diseased brains.

http://www.brainplace.com/bp/atlas/ch5.asp
Brain images differentiating dementia and pseudodementia.

http://www.alzheimers.org/unravel.html
Detailed information on Alzheimer's disease.

http://empresas.mundivia.es/braincenter/Huntington.htm
Historical summary of the discovery of Huntington's disease.

http://empresas.mundivia.es/braincenter/Parkinsonism.htm
Historical summary of the discovery of Parkinson's disease.

http://www.sfn.org/briefings/parkinsons.html
A brief look at Parkinson's disease and dopamine.

Other Sites of Interest

http://www.epub.org.br/cm/n01/dalga/dalga1_i.htm
An essay on the theory that psychopathology (insanity) increases with the civilization level of the culture.

http://www.sciam.com/1998/0698womens/0698leibenluft.html
A Scientific American article on the higher incidence of depression in women.

http://users.erols.com/ksciacca/
Dual diagnosis: mental illness with substance abuse.

http://www.cts.com/crash/habtsmrt/cogtitle.html
Cognitive therapy used to treat depression, anxiety, and anger management.

http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/mdd/99/aug/mysterious.html
An interesting article - "The Mysterious Placebo Effect."

http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2000/100_heal.html
An FDA article, "The Healing Power of Placebos."

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lwh/drugs/
A web book, "Drugs, Brains, and Behavior", discussing the pharmacology involved in anxiety, schizophrenia, and depression.

http://www.algy.com/anxiety/drugs.html
A detailed list of medications used to treat depression and anxiety.

http://www.epub.org.br/cm/n04/historia/shock_i.htm
A history of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).

http://text.nlm.nih.gov/nih/cdc/www/51txt.html
A National Institute of Health article on ECT as a treatment for mental illnesses.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/selfheal/nonmain.htm
A list of alternative treatment resources for mental illness.

http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/disordermodels/psychopathology-model-list.htm
A connectionist model of psychopathologies.

http://www.geocities.com/parrothead1978_2000/serotonin.html
Molecular structure of serotonin with related links.