Almost 30 years ago, the U.SNational Institute of Health declared the 1990s "the decade of the brain."Since then, considerable funding has been devoted topsychiatricresearch exploring various aspects of brain science.
Some scholars have argued that this was a nodal point in the history of psychiatry, marking a reorientationfrom a biopsychosocial model to a "bio-bio-bio model,"which remains dominant today. This emphasizes three factors:neuroscience, psychiatricgeneticsandpsychopharmacology.