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Biological Psychology
Biological psychology may be looked at as a hybrid of neuroscience and
psychology. Practitioners of biological psychology may use their knowledge
of the brain, from neurotransmitters to the cerebral cortex to treat their
patients. Others may use this knowledge to search for biological causes
for common mental illnesses, such as depression and schizophrenia.
Many psychologists focus largely on the mental processes of their patients.
Biological psychologists work on the basis that there is an organic basis
to mental processes, and that this requires them to understand the way
that mental processes are instantiated in the brain. They recognize that
treating the organic problem may be accomplished by talking as well as
drugs.
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