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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

A. David Redish ,
Rebecca Kazinka  and
Alexander B. Herman
A. David Redish
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. redish@umn.edu
Rebecca Kazinka
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. kazin003@umn.edu
Alexander B. Herman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. herma686@umn.edu
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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.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e24
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