Why is the brain so sensitive to early life experiences?
I was asked this question on Quora:
Good question. We can restate it as follows:
Why would natural selection allow animals to be so sensitive to negative early experience?
The neural circuitry of emotion – an interview with me!
I was interviewed by the excellent Allen Saakyan for his Simulation YouTube channel. Check it out if you want to know about my research... and also my take on the question of Life,…
Our computational model of visual attention disruptions in schizophrenia
My latest modeling paper has been published in Computational Psychiatry. Visual Attention Deficits in Schizophrenia Can Arise From Inhibitory Dysfunction in Thalamus or Cortex (Open Access!) Here’s the abstract: “Schizophrenia…
“the term reward has no consistent meaning”
A very important point about dopamine (DA) and reward, from a recent review paper: "The DA hypothesis of reward is a ubiquitous feature of the scientific literature, as well as…
How reliable are psychiatric diagnoses?
This post, which mostly provides useful citations, was originally written as an answer to the following Quora question:
Is ADHD one of the only psychiatric conditions that can be diagnosed objectively?