PSYCH 001: The Neuroscience of Psychiatry
Psychiatry sits at a unique crossroads in medicine: it is the only specialty tasked with understanding how biological processes give rise to subjective experience. This chapter lays the foundation for that endeavour by exploring the neuroscience that underpins thought, emotion, perception, and behaviour.
In this episode, we examine how the brain is not simply a collection of structures, but a dynamic, adaptive system of interacting circuits. Neurons do not act in isolation; they form networks that encode meaning, prediction, and response. Mental states emerge not from single regions, but from…
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