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Chapter 8 - Neurophilosophy

Neuroscience, Non-reductionism and Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2025

By
Norman A. Poole  and
Derek Bolton
Edited by
Niruj Agrawal  and
Norman Poole
Niruj Agrawal
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London
Norman Poole
Affiliation:
South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
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Summary

This chapter comes in two related but distinct parts. The first presents general trends in the neurosciences and considers how these impact upon psychiatry as a clinical science. The second picks up a recent and important development in neuroscience which seeks to explain mental functions such as perception and has been profitably extended into explanations of psychopathology. The second part can be viewed as a working example of the first’s overarching themes.

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brainsensoryneurosciencepredictionmodelsystemprecisionprobability
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Essential Neuroscience for Psychiatrists , pp. 260 - 282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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