Cognitive neuropsychiatry?

Neural Sufficiency, Reductionism, and Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Editorial: in praise of cognitive neuropsychiatry.

I wonder if the readers of this journal remember that time, not so long ago, when functional psychoses such as schizophrenia had nothing to do with the brain? This belief was not limited to antipsychiatrists such as Szasz. When my colleague, psychiatrist Eve Johnstone, published her classic paper in 1976 in the Lancet demonstrating enlarged ventricles in association with chronic schizophrenia (...

Hallucinating God? The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Religious Belief and Experience

At least since M ARX and F REUD , there has existed a conceptualization of religious belief as pathological. 1 According to this view, religious beliefs result from, and are indicative of, some kind of intellectual flaw or deficiency (P LANTINGA 2000). We might say that religious beliefs are here construed as reflecting doxastic dysfunction (from the Greek word “doxa”, meaning “opinion” or “bel...

Neuropsychiatry

The purpose of this book is to exhaustively review what appears to be a general integration between the subspecialities of neurology and psychiatry. In the Foreward, it is pointed out that practitioners of neurology and psychiatry “have been assigned the uniquely challenging task of treating the most complex disorders of the most complex organ in the body.”p xi The Preface notes that recent beh...

Computational Neuropsychiatry – Schizophrenia as a Cognitive Brain Network Disorder

Computational modeling of functional brain networks in fMRI data has advanced the understanding of higher cognitive function. It is hypothesized that functional networks mediating higher cognitive processes are disrupted in people with schizophrenia. In this article, we review studies that applied measures of functional and effective connectivity to fMRI data during cognitive tasks, in particul...