Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty dedicated to the study of mental illness with the aim of preventing, evaluating, diagnosing, treating and rehabilitating people with mental disorders and deviations from the optimum.
What is a psychiatrist?
The psychiatrist should consider behavior and thought as direct influences on the functioning of the organism and the brain, and vice versa; that is, behavioral and thought responses are also a response to the proper functioning of the brain and the organism.
Therefore, various studies are useful to make proper diagnoses; among them are laboratory and cabinet studies (blood sampling and X-rays or CT scans, electroencephalogram and magnetic resonance imaging among others) to rule out physical alterations that could be determining the behavior or altered thinking.
This is why the psychiatrist has access to the use of medications that are aimed at improving the physiological brain alterations that many doctors call alterations of brain chemicals.