TOPIC The concepts and research that underpin our understanding of how the brain is the
organ of the mind. PURPOSE To describe the dynamic nature of nervous system functioning …

This chapter offers a systemic and ecological account as an opposing view to the naturalist
idea that mental illnesses can be reduced to dysfunctions of the brain. Mental illness is …

20th century, especially during the 1990s Decade of the Brain, I selected “Mind Meets Brain”
as the theme for the 2001 APA Annual Meeting. The theme recognizes that daily, new …

Neuroscience, the study of the structure and function of the brain, has captured our
imaginations. Breakthrough technologies permit neuroscientists to probe how the human …

Biological research has produced major advances in our understanding of our bodies and,
where systems go wrong, is producing remedies to address these, but it has yet to do the …

Psychiatry enters the new millennium poised to answer many of its central questions. Given
the complexity of the human brain and its interactions with our world, these questions are …

Currently, there is a growing interest in combining genetic information with physiological
data measured by functional neuroimaging to investigate the underpinnings of psychiatric …

Psychiatry is in one of its regular crises. It is a crisis of its diagnostic systems despite–
perhaps because–of the recurrent claims about the extent of diagnosable 'brain disorders'. It …

In recent decades, psychiatry and the neurosciences have made little progress in terms of
preventing, diagnosing, classifying, or treating mental disorders. Here we argue that the …

The medical specialty of psychiatry should possess a basic science in which pathologies are
considered deviations from normal brain physiology. Historically, psychoanalytic …