Abstract
The atomistic research program in biological psychiatry has to admit increasingly that only a systemic re-construction of the brain might help to understand mental functions and dysfunctions (“Computational Systems Biopsychiatry”). New technologies that record multiple units by complex data analyses implicate multiple network concepts of brain structures and functions (e.g. graph theoretical models). However, these descriptive quantitative models are not sufficient to “explain” complex mental disorders such as schizophrenia. For this reason computer-based process models are necessary. A sketch of this multi-level modelling task is given by referring to “dysconnectivity hypothesis” of schizophrenia.
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Tretter, F. (2015). Systems Biopsychiatry: The Cognitive Neurodynamics of Schizophrenia in an Integrated Systemic View. In: Liljenström, H. (eds) Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (IV). Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9548-7_83
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