Title:Conceptual Issues in Psychiatric Neuroimaging: An Update
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Author(s):D. Stoyanov, G. Stanghellini and M. Broome
Affiliation:Medical University of Plovdiv, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Vassil Aprilov str. 15-A, 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Keywords:Functional neuroimaging, translation, validity, methodology
Abstract:Aim: In this paper, we provide an update on the conceptual issues of psychiatric neuroimaging, especially in the
light of the current reductive claims of the eliminative physicalism.
Argument: our argument is developed on three stages. The first is to highlight the crucial importance of phenomenological
psychopathology and person-centered approach, which remains underestimated; the second is to bring forward the view
that functional neuroimaging is relevant to the area of ‘translation’ in the mind-brain debate. The third point is to present a
critical analysis of the shortcomings in structural and functional neuroimaging from methodological and epistemological
perspectives.
Conclusion: a novel paradigm for translational cross-validation among neuroscience, psychopathology and clinical psychology
is presented.
