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One of the first books that models mental function within sociocultural, socioeconomic, and environmental context
This volume applies the asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories to construct a family of statistical models -- akin to but different from regression models – that can be used to analyze observational and empirical data in a field where such tools are sadly lacking
The systems biology approach, in addition, provides a philosophical context that is lacking in`brain only’ treatments of mental disorders which commit the ‘mereological fallacy’ of attributing to one part what are aspects of the whole: the full person embedded in socioculture and history
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores mental disorders from a uniquely evolutionary perspective. Although there have been many attempts to mathematically model neural processes and, to some extent, their dysfunction, there is very little literature that models mental function within a sociocultural, socioeconomic, and environmental context.
Addressing this gap in the extant literature, this book explores essential aspects of mental disorders, recognizing the ubiquitous role played by the exaptation of crosstalk between cognitive modules at many different scales and levels of organization, the missing heritability of complex diseases, and cultural epigenetics. Further, it introduces readers to valuable control theory tools that permit the exploration of the environmental induction of neurodevelopmental disorders, as well as the study of the synergism between culture, psychopathology and sleep disorders, offering a distinctively unique resource.
Authors and Affiliations
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New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
Rodrick Wallace
About the author
Rodrick Wallace, is a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and a professor at Columbia University. He received a B.S. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University. A recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, he has also published the book “Gene Expression and Its Discontents” with his colleague Deborah Wallace. He has published many papers adapting quantitative methods from population, community and ecosystem ecology to the theoretical and empirical analysis of problems of public health and public order.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Computational Psychiatry
Book Subtitle: A Systems Biology Approach to the Epigenetics of Mental Disorders
Authors: Rodrick Wallace
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53910-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53909-6Published: 03 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85273-7Published: 25 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53910-2Published: 20 April 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 236
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: Systems Biology, Human Genetics, Psychiatry