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Brain networks require a network-conscious psychopathological approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Achille Pasqualotto
Achille Pasqualotto*
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Tuzla 34956, Istanbul, Turkey Division of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637332Singapore. achille@ntu.edu.sg
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Abstract

In experimental psychology and neuroscience, technological advances and multisensory research have contributed to gradually dismiss a version of reductionism. Empirical results no longer support a brain model in which distinct “modules” perform discrete functions, but rather, a brain of partially overlapping networks. A similarly changed brain model is extending to psychopathology and clinical psychology, and partly accounts for the problems of reductionism.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e20
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