Tiziana M. 
Disorders Of The Brain 
A Guide to Mental Illnesses

Mental illness has been recognized in people dating back to days of Ancient Greece and Rome. A number of disturbances that were described included feelings of melancholy, hysteria and phobias. The concept that mental illness must be related to biology wasfirst considered by Hippocrates. While at this time serious conditions such asschizophrenia were not yet recognized, the thought that these conditions were relatedto the brain was there.As time passed, several psychiatric theories developed and even crude treatments weredeveloped to treat individuals. Many of these treatments and theories for mental illnesswere developed by Islamic medicine in the Middle East.