Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit Medical Campus of the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Research themes place emphasis on common diseases, particularly blood disorders, cancer, iron metabolism disorders, chronic pain, diseases associated with aging, and AIDS. In 2018 more than 110 scientists from across the world work on these eight research themes: Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit The Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU) is an alliance between the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg. Its primary aim is to uncover the molecular basis of disease and to speed the transformation of biomedical discoveries into personalized medicine strategies. Founded in
History of mental disorders especially during periods of economic decline, and during wartime in particular many patients starved to death. Soldiers received increased psychiatric attention, and World War II saw the development in the US of a new psychiatric manual for categorizing mental disorders, which along with existing systems for collecting census and hospital statistics led to the first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) followed suit with a section on mental disorders. Previously restricted to the treatment of severely disturbed people in asylums, psychiatrists cultivated clients with a broader range of problems, and between 1917