麻省精神卫生中心的Schildkraut说:“精神病学已跃出它本学科的界限而进入一个新的‘精神生化’纪元。今天我们的精神病学正处在与50年代内科医生类似的位置上,临床化验医学在精神病学的实践中已开始造成影响”。 如测定尿中、血中和脑脊液中某些化学成分的浓度以及利用支持精神病诊断的资料来选择适当治疗方法及监护治疗。这一领域是新的但又很原始,仅有少数精神病学家利用这种试验。然 Schildkraut at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center said: “Psychiatry has moved beyond the boundaries of its discipline into a new era of ’psycho-biochemistry.’ Today, our psychiatry is in a position similar to that of physicians in the 1950s, and clinical Laboratory medicine has begun to have an impact in the practice of psychiatry. ” Such as determination of urinary, blood and cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of some of the chemical composition and the use of psychiatry information to choose the appropriate treatment and custody therapy. This area is new but primitive, and only a few psychiatrists use it. Of course