Taking an engineer's view: Implications of network analysis for computational psychiatry

Behav Brain Sci. 2019 Jan:42:e24. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18001152.

Abstract

An engineer's viewpoint on psychiatry asks: What are the failure modes that underlie psychiatric dysfunction? And: How can we modify the system? Psychiatry has made great strides in understanding and treating disorders using biology; however, failure modes and modification access points can also exist extrinsically in environmental interactions. The network analysis suggested by Borsboom et al. in the target article provides a new viewpoint that should be incorporated into current theoretical constructs, not placed in opposition to them.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Brain Diseases*
  • Humans
  • Psychiatry*
  • Psychopathology
  • Research