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Understanding mental health through computers: An introduction to computational psychiatry
Computational psychiatry recently established itself as a new tool in the study of mental disorders and problems. Integration of different levels of analysis is creating computational phenotypes with clinical and research values, and constructing a way to arrive at precision psychiatry are part of t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9941647/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36824671 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1092471 |
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author | Castro Martínez, Juan Camilo Santamaría-García, Hernando |
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description | Computational psychiatry recently established itself as a new tool in the study of mental disorders and problems. Integration of different levels of analysis is creating computational phenotypes with clinical and research values, and constructing a way to arrive at precision psychiatry are part of this new branch. It conceptualizes the brain as a computational organ that receives from the environment parameters to respond to challenges through calculations and algorithms in continuous feedback and feedforward loops with a permanent degree of uncertainty. Through this conception, one can seize an understanding of the cerebral and mental processes in the form of theories or hypotheses based on data. Using these approximations, a better understanding of the disorder and its different determinant factors facilitates the diagnostics and treatment by having an individual, ecologic, and holistic approach. It is a tool that can be used to homologate and integrate multiple sources of information given by several theoretical models. In conclusion, it helps psychiatry achieve precision and reproducibility, which can help the mental health field achieve significant advancement. This article is a narrative review of the basis of the functioning of computational psychiatry with a critical analysis of its concepts. |
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spelling | pubmed-99416472023-02-22 Understanding mental health through computers: An introduction to computational psychiatry Castro Martínez, Juan Camilo Santamaría-García, Hernando Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Computational psychiatry recently established itself as a new tool in the study of mental disorders and problems. Integration of different levels of analysis is creating computational phenotypes with clinical and research values, and constructing a way to arrive at precision psychiatry are part of this new branch. It conceptualizes the brain as a computational organ that receives from the environment parameters to respond to challenges through calculations and algorithms in continuous feedback and feedforward loops with a permanent degree of uncertainty. Through this conception, one can seize an understanding of the cerebral and mental processes in the form of theories or hypotheses based on data. Using these approximations, a better understanding of the disorder and its different determinant factors facilitates the diagnostics and treatment by having an individual, ecologic, and holistic approach. It is a tool that can be used to homologate and integrate multiple sources of information given by several theoretical models. In conclusion, it helps psychiatry achieve precision and reproducibility, which can help the mental health field achieve significant advancement. This article is a narrative review of the basis of the functioning of computational psychiatry with a critical analysis of its concepts. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9941647/ /pubmed/36824671 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1092471 Text en Copyright © 2023 Castro Martínez and Santamaría-García. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Castro Martínez, Juan Camilo Santamaría-García, Hernando Understanding mental health through computers: An introduction to computational psychiatry |
title | Understanding mental health through computers: An introduction to computational psychiatry |
title_full | Understanding mental health through computers: An introduction to computational psychiatry |
title_fullStr | Understanding mental health through computers: An introduction to computational psychiatry |
title_full_unstemmed | Understanding mental health through computers: An introduction to computational psychiatry |
title_short | Understanding mental health through computers: An introduction to computational psychiatry |
title_sort | understanding mental health through computers: an introduction to computational psychiatry |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9941647/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36824671 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1092471 |
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