07 August 2018
In this paper, the authors focused on the increasingly growing understanding that the notion of categorical (discrete) mental disorders adopted in the DSM-III, DSM-IV and even in DSM-5 is far removed from the biological reality of the brain. Convergent evidence suggests that the categorical model of the DSM is a poor fit to the inherent structure of psychopathology.
25 May 2018
This conceptual paper, based on the Wittgenstein's Tractatus (that assesses the syntactic relationships between language and world), and Perlovsky's joint language-cognitive computational model (that assesses the semantic relationships between emotions and “knowledge instinct”), puts foundations for the neural correlates of syntax and semantics in the human brain through the topological approach based on the Borsuk-Ulam and the Brouwer fixed-point theorems.
03 May 2018
The theory underlying this study emphasizes that the Self constituted an integral, structural and organising core of an individual’s personality. The findings of the study both add to the growing evidence that conceptualizes the experiential selfhood in terms of self-referential processes, and also illuminate the link between such processes and their neurophysiological representation by means of a specially dedicated and