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I don't know why you are being downvoted. The famed neuroscientist ramanachandram had a story about how psychiastrists were assigning woman with all kinds of di
by basetop 7y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted. The famed neuroscientist ramanachandram had a story about how psychiastrists were assigning woman with all kinds of disparate diagnoses for her occasional erratic behavior. Turns out neuroscientists found out she was having small strokes and once they fixed it with brain surgery, her erratic behavior went away.
Psychiatry is like fixing a software bug by telling the customer to simply avoid doing things that causes the bug rather than correcting the actual code and fixing the software.
I know some people don't like reductionist reasoning, but the more I think about it, the more I'm inclined to believe that all psychological problems are ultimately a brain problem. We just don't know enough about the brain yet to fix many of those problems.
- tokai 7y agoI would guess it's because it is an huge simplification of the relationship between the two disciplines. The fields of science are not discrete.
- village-idiot 7y agoI’m not sure if all psychological problems are brain problems, at least not at any level that we can interact with at a meaningful level yet. Example: let’s say you had a moderately abusive parent. The result is low self esteem but nothing diagnostic worthy. While I’m sure there’s a concrete neurological effect that might be measurable, but I seriously doubt that neuroscientists would have the tools today to interdict and make a difference in the way that psychology might. Now I do agree that neurology is replacing psychology, I just don’t think it has replaced it yet.