Neural Networks and Psychopathology: Connectionist Models in Practice and Research - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521571634 ISBN 13: 9780521571630

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Research on connectionist models is one of the most exciting areas in cognitive science, and neural network models of psychopathology have immediate theoretical and empirical appeal. The contributors to this pioneering book review theoretical, historical and clinical issues, including the contribution of neural network models to diagnosis, pharmacotherapy, and psychotherapy. The text presents models for a range of disorders, including schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, disassociative phenomena, autism, and Alzheimer's disease. This volume will be read with interest by psychiatrists, psychologists and other clinicians and researchers in psychopathology. Additionally, it will appeal to those working in the fields of cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and particularly those interested in neural network or connectionist models.

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Book Description

Research on connectionist models is one of the most exciting areas in cognitive science, and this pioneering book review s theoretical, historical and clinical issues, including the contribution of neural network models to diagnosis, pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. It will be read with interest by psychiatrists, psychologists and other clinicians and researchers in psychopathology, and will appeal to those working in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and particularly those interested in neural network or connectionist models.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521571634
• ISBN 13: 9780521571630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 386
• Editor: Stein Dan J., Ludik Jacques