Visceral theory of mental disorders

Based on the visceral theory of sleep by I. N. Pigarev, we hypothesize that mental illnesses are caused due to errors in the commutation of external and internal information flows in the brain. As a consequence of these errors, visceral information is constantly present in the cerebral cortex and during wakefulness, on the one hand, is misinterpreted as coming from the outside world, and on the other hand creates a persistent noise overload in exteroceptive (visual and auditory) and proprioceptive channels leading in a long run to the over-strain and malfunction of the adaptive mechanisms of the brain.