Peter Sterling – A New Vision for Mental Health

A Neuroscientist Evaluates the Standard Biological Model of Depression

Author: Editorial 3rd August 2023 0 Comments

This research article by Peter Sterling (Professor of Neuroscience) has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Abstract Neuroscientists widely hypothesize that ‘depression’ arises from a brain disorder caused by some defect in a specific neural pathway. If so, we might identify…
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chemical imbalance theory, depression, history of psychiatry, Mad in America, medical model, neuroimaging, neuroscience, Peter Sterling, psychiatry, Research

Causality in Mental Disturbance: A Review of the Neuroscience

Author: Editorial 31st July 2023 0 Comments

“To be clear: there is no neuroscience to suggest that any mental function would be improved by ablating or stimulating a particular structure in the prefrontal cortex or its associated subcortical regions. To the contrary, what we know of the intrinsic organization…
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history of psychiatry, lobotomy, Mad in America, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, neuropsychiatry, neuroscience, Peter Sterling, psychiatry, psychosurgery, Research