RT Book, Section
A1 Kandel, Eric R.
A1 Koester, John D.
A1 Mack, Sarah H.
A1 Siegelbaum, Steven A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1180646867
T1 Disorders of Mood and Anxiety
T2 Principles of Neural Science, 6e
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259642234
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180646867
RD 2022/05/20
AB DEPRESSION,  BIPOLAR  DISORDER,  AND  ANXIETY  DISORDERS  have  been  well  documented  in  medical  writings  since  ancient  times.  In  the  fifth  century  BC,  Hippocrates  taught  that  moods  depended  on  the  balance  of  four  humors—blood,  phlegm,  yellow  bile,  and  black  bile.  An  excess  of  black  bile  (melancholia  is  the  ancient  Greek  term  for  black  bile)  was  believed  to  cause  a  state  dominated  by  fear  and  despondency.  Robert  Burton’s  Anatomy  of  Melancholy  (1621)  was  not  only  an  important  medical  text  but  also  viewed  literature  and  the  arts  through  the  lens  of  melancholia.  Such  texts  describe  symptoms  that  remain  familiar  today;  they  also  recognized  that  symptoms  of  depression  and  of  anxiety  often  occur  together.