Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: An Overview more

We review the unifying philosophical theme of the edited volume: how is psychopathology studied scientifically within psychiatry and psychology through the paradigms of cognitive neuroscience and cognitive neuropsychiatry? Topics addressed in the edited volume include: the nature of psychiatry as a science; the compatibility of the accounts of mental illness derived from neuroscience, information-processing, and folk psychology; the nature of mental illness; the impact of contemporary methods in neuroscientific investigation, such as functional neuroimaging, neuropsychology, and neurochemistry, on psychiatry; the relationship between phenomenological accounts of mental illness and those provided by naturalistic explanations; the status of delusions and the (dis)continuity between delusions and ordinary beliefs; and the interplay between clinical and empirical findings in psychopathology and accounts of virtue and responsibility in moral psychology and ethics.