Computational Psychiatry

A Systems Biology Approach to the Epigenetics of Mental Disorders

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Rodrick Wallace

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This book explores mental disorders from a uniquely evolutionary perspective.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-07-25
Mått155 x 235 x 14 mm
Vikt382 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor236
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319852737

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Psykiatri inom Medicin
Medicinsk genetik inom Medicin
Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

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.

Consciousness, Crosstalk, and the Mereological Fallacy.- A Cognitive Paradigm for Gene Expression.- Western Atomism and its Culture-Bound Syndromes.- Environmental Induction of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.- Sleep, Psychopathology and Culture.- Embodied cognition and its disorders.- Tools for the Future: Hidden Symmetries.- Psychopathologies of automata I: autonomous vehiclesystems.- Psychopathologies of automata II: autonomous weapons and centaur systems.- The dynamics of environmental insult.- Social psychopathology: military doctrine and the madness of crowds.- Mathematical Appendix.- Index.