Title |
A determinação biológica dos transtornos mentais: uma discussão a partir de teses neurocientíficas recentes
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Published in |
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, August 2016
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DOI | 10.1590/0102-311x00168115 |
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Authors |
Luna Rodrigues Freitas-Silva, Francisco Ortega |
Abstract |
Understanding the processes involved in the development of mental disorders has proven challenging ever since psychiatry was founded as a field. Neuroscience has provided new expectations that an explanation will be found for the development of mental disorders based on biological functioning alone. However, such a goal has not been that easy to achieve, and new hypotheses have begun to appear in neuroscience research. In this article we identify epigenetics, neurodevelopment, and plasticity as the principal avenues for a new understanding of the biology of mental phenomena. Genetic complexity, the environment's formative role, and variations in vulnerability involve important changes in the principal hypotheses on biological determination of mental disorders, suggesting a reconfiguration of the limits between the "social" and the "biological" in neuroscience research. |
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