Embedding neuroscience in psychiatry training

Psychiatry and neuroscience - history.

The ideal of inexorable scientific progress, characterized by expanding knowledge and increased sophistication and complexity, is a defining characteristic of themodern self-image of the natural sciences and can even be objectivelyquantified.Rider (1944) anddeSolla Price (1963), the founders of bibliometrics and scientometrics, notedmany years ago that fromthe 17th century onward thenumberof sc...

Transforming neuroscience education in psychiatry.

In considering the articles assembled in this special issue of Academic Psychiatry and the motivations for creating it, one must reflect on the current state of the relationship between neuroscience and psychiatry. Psychiatric disorders are inherently brain disorders, and neuroscience is the basic science of psychiatry. Although most psychiatrists entered this profession because of their curios...

Affective neuroscience and psychiatry.

Affective neuroscience addresses the brain mechanisms underlying emotional behaviour. In psychiatry, affective neuroscience finds application not only in understanding the neurobiology of mood disorders, but also by providing a framework for understanding the neural control of interpersonal and social behaviour and processes that underlie psychopathology. By providing a coherent conceptual fram...

Psychiatry and social nutritional neuroscience.

Cacioppo et al (1) elegantly outline potential contributions of social neuroscience to psychiatry. Their interdisciplinary approach could be enhanced by incorporating a nutritional perspective. Indeed, although the human brain represents only about 2% of human body mass, it accounts for 20% of the total resting metabolic rate (2). As a consequence of the brain’s intense energy requirements, met...

Should psychiatry become social neuroscience?