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6 - Brain and Mind in Psychiatry? Presuppositions of Cognitive Ontology

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2020

By
Georg Northoff
Edited by
Kenneth S. Kendler ,
Josef Parnas  and
Peter Zachar
Kenneth S. Kendler
Affiliation:
Virginia Commonwealth University
Josef Parnas
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen
Peter Zachar
Affiliation:
Auburn University, Montgomery
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Summary

Psychiatric diagnosis and research is hampered by problems in nosological classification. Recent development has seen the suggestion of dimensionally-based classification systems like the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) and cognitive ontology (CO), with the latter being developed by Bilder in his chapter. I here discuss some usually tacit or implicit presuppositions of CO concerning brain and mind. I conclude that, despite shifting from an entity-based approach (as in the DSM) to a dimensional approach, the cognitive ontology project still encounters the problem of connecting neuronal changes to psychopathological symptoms and, more generally, brain and mind.

Keywords

Cognitive ontologyResearch Domains Criteria (RDoC)BrainResting stateSpatiotemporal dynamicsCognitionPsychiatric symptoms
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Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
 , pp. 78 - 86
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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