Computational Psychiatry A Systems Biology Approach to the Epigenetics of Mental Disorders /

• Main Author: Wallace, Rodrick (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Human genetics.; Psychiatry.; Systems biology.; Life Sciences.; Systems Biology.; Human Genetics.

This book explores mental disorders from a uniquely evolutionary perspective. Although there have been many attempts to mathematically model neural processes and, to some extent, their dysfunction, there is very little literature that models mental function within a sociocultural, socioeconomic, and...

Table of Contents:

• Consciousness, Crosstalk, and the Mereological Fallacy
• A Cognitive Paradigm for Gene Expression
• Western Atomism and its Culture-Bound Syndromes
• Environmental Induction of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
• Sleep, Psychopathology and Culture
• Embodied cognition and its disorders
• Tools for the Future: Hidden Symmetries
• Psychopathologies of automata I: autonomous vehicle systems
• Psychopathologies of automata II: autonomous weapons and centaur systems
• The dynamics of environmental insult
• Social psychopathology: military doctrine and the madness of crowds
• Mathematical Appendix
• Index.