Classifying neural circuit dysfunctions using neuroeconomics
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
The traditional approach to psychiatric diagnosis is based on grouping patients on the basis of symptom clusters. This approach to diagnosis has a number of problems, as symptoms are not necessarily specific to a single diagnosis. Symptoms may vary among patients with a particular diagnosis, and there are no clear diagnostic biomarkers or tests for psychiatry as there are for other areas of medicine. Scientists have now introduced a new classification scheme for psychiatric symptoms based on the state of a dysfunctional neural circuit.