AbstractPsychiatry is the only branch of medicine that still diagnoses without reference to the organ it treats. Psychiatry: The Case for Starting Over argues that this is a structural failure rather than a temporary gap. The descriptive nosology inherited from Kraepelin and formalized in the DSM achieved diagnostic reliability at the cost of validity. Its categories were assembled by committee...
It is not a secret that treatments for mental disorders are limited in their therapeutic efficacy. The reason for this, among other things, is the lack of knowledge regarding the etiology (causes) of psychiatric disorders. For many years efforts to combine Computational Neuroscience with psychiatry are beginning to yield some insights that may connect phenomenology to brain disturbances and...