Bridging the brain-mind divide in psychiatric education: The neuro-bio-psycho-social formulation

摘要

Psychiatrists of the future need to have a strong working knowledge of the organ they work with—the brain. Neuropsychiatry is now more than a paradigm. Systems-level behavioral neuroscience, while still evolving, is mature enough to provide circuit-based foundation. Cellular and molecular neuroscience is starting to yield further mechanistic understanding. It is important to integrate such approaches into an evidence-based, bio-psycho-social formulation, with increasing implications for disease taxonomy, diagnosis and treatment.