Neuroscience

Interesting to know what’s on neuroscientific radar screens, but impractical in the treatment room because we treat in the here and now. Moves at a “laboratory” pace – very slow. Subject to the vagaries of funding. Disappoints often – the complexity of brain functioning has defeated the DSMs and even the best NIMH efforts in search of valid and reliable biomarkers. Progress in understanding mental disorders is painstaking – they’ll be no holes-in-one, no all-encompassing explanations, nothing “Einsteinish.” There will [...]