PSY 442 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Social Cognition, Psy, Mental Disorder
29 Jul 2020
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This new approach to the anatomical substrate of a reality as complex as the neuropsychologyof mental disorders through studies with neuroimaging techniques raises some epistemological problems that need to be addressed. Another aspect of great relevance and that goes too unnoticed is the study of "healthy" brains. Neuropsychologists approach the brain study of subjects affected by some pathology (brain damage, dementia, schizophrenia) in order to determine which cognitive deficits underlie the behavioral alterations observed in these patients. Neuropsychology must penetrate evolutionary biology to understand that many disorders and symptoms that afflict subjects affected by a disorder are misadaptations of ancestral brain systems whose mission was to manage life. It is curious that at this point in the work we have to raise a fact so simple and so obvious in turn. However, and this is funny, we trust our minds and brains to people who don"t know much about how a normal brain operates.
