Andrea Mija-Reyna

The Nervous System in Pedro Ortiz Cabanillas’s Sociobiological Informational Theory: An Epistemological Alternative to Classical Neuroanatomy

Human Arenas May 17, 2026 Hans Contreras-Pulache, Diego Carrera-Hidalgo, Ana Astorga-Cota et al.

This article examines Pedro Ortiz Cabanillas’s original model of nervous system organization, as presented in the second edition of Introducción a una Psicobiología del Hombre (2010). The framework integrates three core components —emotional, productive, and volitional— across five hierarchical levels (cellular, tissue, neural, paleocortical, and neocortical), which in turn span biological,...