Major depressive disorder is a heterogeneous diagnostic category with multiple available
treatments. With the goal of optimizing treatment selection, researchers are developing …

Depressed individuals exhibit an attentional bias towards mood‐congruent stimuli, yet
evidence for biased processing of threat‐related information in human interaction remains …

Attempted answers are given to (a) whether nonhuman great apes (apes) also have evolved
imitation (answer: no);(b) whether humans can transmit imitation as a gadget to apes …

This is the first introductory textbook of its kind devoted to philosophy of psychiatry, offering a
thorough and accessible investigation of the conceptual and philosophical problems at the …

Predictive processing theorists have claimed PTSD and depression are maladaptive and
epistemically distorting because they entail undesirably wide gaps between top-down …

Social media is implicated today in an array of mental health concerns. While concerns
around social media have become mainstream, little is known about the specific cognitive …

Ketamine, classical psychedelics and sleep deprivation are associated with rapid effects on
depression. Interestingly, these interventions also have common psychotomimetic actions …

The principle of mental gravity contends that the mind uses physical gravity as a mental
model or simulacrum to express the relation between the inner self and the outer world in …

Background Adolescence is characterized by increasing prevalence of depressive
symptomatology, along with significant structural brain development. While much research …

We apply the Free Energy Principle (FEP) to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). FEP
describes the basic functioning of the brain as a predictive organ and states that any self …