People, having had experience within and from their own neural organs, tend to think they have some sort of insight and authority on the matter of psychology an

People, having had experience within and from their own neural organs, tend to think they have some sort of insight and authority on the matter of psychology and psychiatry. As it happens, our intuitions are only occasionally correct, and at the most obtuse level of description. For those that suggest that psychiatry and brain research should be integrated more, all I can say is that it is an active area of research today, and moreover, it is not restricted to psychiatry and MRIs, but to genetic research, animal models, basic neuroscience. We are attempting to under developmental disorders at every level of description, simultaneously, and across levels. There are big efforts to form unified understanding of the relations between several disorders, ADHD, debilitating types of autism, depression, anxiety, etc, which are frequently comorbid. The problems is just damn difficult. Also, its not just 8-years of domain specific education. We never stop learning.