This volume is the 2nd in a series of 8 compiled following the World Congress of Psychiatry held in Vienna in 1983. Topics addressed include organic brain syndromes, functional psychoses; genetics; depression; pathochemical markers in major psychoses; steroids; psychoneuroendocrinology; positron emission tomography; laterality & psychopathology; serotonin; drug therapies; mania; lithium transport research; schizophrenia; movement disorders; ECT; anxiety; anorexia nervosa; stress. (NBB)