Biological psychiatry and reductionism

Reductionism and Biological Complexity

The biologist's progblem is the problem of complexity. According to the conventional wisdom, the way to study complex systems is by breaking them down into their parts. In Richard Dawkins's words, "the biologist tries to explain the workings, and coming into existence, of complex things in terms of simpler things. He can regard his task as done when he has arrived at entities so simple that the...

Biological Psychiatry

cjuencv.' and "Absorption of stimulus energy." Further chapters are devoted to triggering of impulses by stimuli, to receptor potentials, and to an attempt to relate sensory cell function and basic morphology. This book was written for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. I think that medical students will find it instructive, as will those members of the medical profession ...

Introduction to Biological Psychiatry

Biological Psychiatry and Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Adopt Neuroscience-Based Nomenclature.

Biological Psychiatry and Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging are pleased to adopt the neurobiology mechanism–based psychopharmacology nomenclature (Neuroscience-based Nomenclature [NbN]) proposed by the Nomenclature Task Force (1), which comprised five leading international organizations: the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, International College of Neuro...

Neuropsychopharmacologic challenge in biological psychiatry.

Psychopharmacologic challenge procedures offer many useful features for biological psychiatry research. First, challenge procedures acutely stimulate neurotransmitter and (or) hormonal systems in the brain and offer the chance to assess the function, and (or) reserve, of the brain neurotransmitter/hormone system of relevance. Second, these paradigms often offer functional information about spec...