The Schizophrenic Brain: A Broken Hermeneutic Circle
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A unifying picture to the hermeneutical approach to schizophrenia is given by combining the philosophical and the experimental/computational approaches. Computational models of associative learning and recall in the corticohippocampal system helps to understand the circuits of normal and pathological behavior.
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