Computational Approaches for Studying Mechanisms of Psychiatric Disorders
Computational Approaches for Studying Mechanisms of Psychiatric Disorders
Vast spectra of biological and psychological processes are potentially involved in the mechanisms of psychiatric illness. Computational neuroscience brings a diverse toolkit to bear on understanding these processes. This chapter begins by organizing the many ways in which computational neuroscience may provide insight to the mechanisms of psychiatric illness. It then contextualizes the quest for deep mechanistic understanding through the perspective that even partial or nonmechanistic understanding can be applied productively. Finally, it questions the standards by which these approaches should be evaluated. If computational psychiatry hopes to go beyond traditional psychiatry, it cannot be judged solely on the basis of how closely it reproduces the diagnoses and prognoses of traditional psychiatry, but must also be judged against more fundamental measures such as patient outcomes.
Keywords: Strüngmann Forum Report, computational psychiatry, computational neuroscience, psychiatry, modeling, decision making, mechanisms of psychiatric illness
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