Contents

pp vii-viii

List of contributors

pp ix-x

Preface

pp xi-xiv

Part one - General Concepts

pp 1-2

1 - Neural networks and psychopathology: an introduction

pp 3-13

2 - The history of neural network research in psychopathology

pp 14-33

3 - Neural network models in psychiatric diagnosis and symptom recognition

pp 34-56

4 - Neural networks and psychopharmacology

pp 57-87

5 - A connectionist view of psychotherapy

pp 88-131

6 - Modulatory mechanisms in mental disorders

pp 132-164

Part two - Clinical disorders

pp 165-166

7 - The nature of delusions: a hierarchical neural network approach

pp 167-188

8 - ‘Produced by either God or Satan’: neural network approaches to delusional thinking

pp 189-230

9 - Neural network modelling of cognitive disinhibition and neurotransmitter dysfunction in obsessive–compulsive disorder

pp 231-247

10 - The fables of Lucy R.: association and dissociation in neural networks

pp 248-273

11 - Neural network analysis of learning in autism

pp 274-315

12 - Are there common neural mechanisms for learning, epilepsy, and Alzheimer's disease?

pp 316-344

Epilogue

The patient in the machine: challenges for neurocomputing

pp 345-362

Index

pp 363-371