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Below is the unedited draft of the article that has been accepted for publication
(© The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 2019, V. 54(1), P. 53-63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0091217418791438)
Brain Space and Time in Mental Disorders:
Paradigm Shift in Biological Psychiatry
Andrew A. Fingelkurts
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, Alexander A. Fingelkurts
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BM-Science – Brain and Mind Technologies Research Centre, FI-02601, Espoo, Finland
E-mail: andrew.fingelkurts@bm-science.com
Abstract:
Contemporary psychiatry faces serious challenges because it has failed to incorporate
accumulated knowledge from basic neuroscience, neurophilosophy and brain-mind
relation studies. As a consequence, it has limited explanatory power, and effective
treatment options are hard to come by. A new conceptual framework for understanding
mental health based on underlying neurobiological spatial-temporal mechanisms of
mental disorders (already gained by the experimental studies) is beginning to emerge.
Keywords:
EEG; brain; mental disorders; nested hierarchy; metastable balance; neuronal assemblies; functional
connectivity; DSM-5