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Computational psychosomatics and computational psychiatry: toward a joint framework for differential diagnosis

Petzschner, Frederike H; Weber, Lilian A E; Gard, Tim; Stephan, Klaas E (2017). Computational psychosomatics and computational psychiatry: toward a joint framework for differential diagnosis. Biological Psychiatry, 82(6):421-430.

Abstract

This article outlines how a core concept from theories of homeostasis and cybernetics, the inference-control loop, may be used to guide differential diagnosis in computational psychiatry and computational psychosomatics. In particular, we discuss 1) how conceptualizing perception and action as inference-control loops yields a joint computational perspective on brain-world and brain-body interactions and 2) how the concrete formulation of this loop as a hierarchical Bayesian model points to key computational quantities that inform a taxonomy of potential disease mechanisms. We consider the utility of this perspective for differential diagnosis in concrete clinical applications.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, further contribution
Communities & Collections:04 Faculty of Medicine > University Hospital Zurich > Institute of Complementary Medicine
04 Faculty of Medicine > Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Dewey Decimal Classification:170 Ethics
610 Medicine & health
Scopus Subject Areas:Life Sciences > Biological Psychiatry
Language:English
Date:2017
Deposited On:20 Jun 2017 06:31
Last Modified:16 Jul 2025 01:53
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:0006-3223
OA Status:Hybrid
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.05.012
PubMed ID:28619481
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