Of waves and troughs

Michael Noll-Hussong

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00197

Abstract

Of waves and troughs

Highlights

Edited by: Marco Stier, University of Muenster, Germany Reviewed by: Sebastian Muders, University of Zurich, Switzerland
In 1998, Eric Kandel wrote in his intriguing paper titled “A new intellectual framework for psychiatry” (Kandel, 1998) that “the unique domain which psychiatry occupies within academic medicine, the analysis of the interaction between social and biological determinants of behavior, can best be studied by having a full understanding of the biological components of behavior.”
In a physical sense, a disturbance that propagates through space and time while transferring energy, there are at least three reoccurring “thermodynamic sinks” that I would like to emphasize with Walter to better understand the complexity of the human brain in action (Bassett, 2011)

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Introduction

Edited by: Marco Stier, University of Muenster, Germany Reviewed by: Sebastian Muders, University of Zurich, Switzerland. The third wave of biological psychiatry by Walter, H. In 1998, Eric Kandel wrote in his intriguing paper titled “A new intellectual framework for psychiatry” (Kandel, 1998) that “the unique domain which psychiatry occupies within academic medicine, the analysis of the interaction between social and biological determinants of behavior, can best be studied by having a full understanding of the biological components of behavior.” Fifteen years later, much like surfers who continue a frustrated and longing pursuit for the “big one” (Cowan et al, 2000; Kandel, 2006), we are, according to Henrik Walter, in the midst of the third wave of biological psychiatry (Walter, 2013).

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