A fiction on what could be future fact!

In coming decades psychiatry will undergo a revolution that will have an outstanding effect on human existence.
This book is about psychiatry in the year 2050. It is not science fiction. The future is based on current testable data and predictions.
It is the story of Dr Dan Moor and the treatments of his patients Steve, Tim and Pamela. The story takes place at a hospital and begins with Dr Moor on his first day of residency and follows him as he takes his patients through the three phases of treatment:
Investigation, Validation and Intervention.

With the scarcity of research funds ever more acute, the number of reported scientific misconduct cases is on the rise. Since the majority of research funding in the US is awarded to researchers in universities by the federal government, the American public must be assured that its tax money does not fund research fraud. No one really knows how many cases of scientific misconduct exist, since many of them are often unreported and covered up by the very people who are in charge of investigating and exposing them and punishing their perpetrators. Another hurdle preventing full exposure of such cases is the high risk faced by whistleblowers everywhere. They routinely pay an extremely high price for daring to reveal wrongdoing and cannot count on open support from their colleagues who fear retaliation and retributions. This book details the account of one case of scientific misconduct and its cover-up. It is hoped that reading this account will make scientists, faculty members and students everywhere more aware of their duty to expose scientific misconduct, while being informed of the inherent risks and pitfalls of whistle blowing.  http://www.brownwalker.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581124228

The Author: The late Professor Robert Werman, was a diplomate of the U.S. Board of Neurology and Psychiatry. He trained for three years in neurology at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City, with an additional two years as a neurologist and psychiatrist in the U.S. Navy.  He then began postdoctoral work on the properties of single nerve cells and was appointed assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University Medical School.  After a year’s research in Cambridge, England, he was appointed Research Professor of Psychiatry at Indiana University.  He also served as professor of anatomy and physiology at Indiana University.  Dr. Werman subsequently moved to Israel in 1967 as professor of neurophysiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  He has more than 200 publications related to the nervous system.  Dr. Werman led the team that discovered the first new central nervous system transmitter, a simple chemical called glycine, active as a short-term inhibitory transmitter in the spinal cord.  This groundbreaking work (1964-1967) opened the way to the discovery of a host of other chemical messengers in the central nervous system, particularly in the brain. http://lobster.ls.huji.ac.il/~rwerman/
 

This work is the forerunner for the upcoming psychiatric revolution. For the first time complex systems knowledge and neuroscience are systematically combined to provide psychiatry with a real basic science of mental disturbances.
Theory is useless without the ability to generate testable predictions. This manuscript provides insight toward new therapies as well as diagnosis of mental disorders. Researchers will find testable predictions for the next generation of psychiatric knowledge and clinicians will find a new neurosciences-oriented etiologicallygenerated diagnostic language for psychiatry.

Link to a review in American J Psychiatry 

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/162/7/1396?etoc