Theoretical neurobiology and schizophrenia

Br Med Bull. 1996 Jul;52(3):644-55. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a011573.

Abstract

This chapter addresses the idea that schizophrenia is a 'disconnection syndrome' from a theoretical and computational perspective. The distinction between anatomical and functional connectivity is reviewed and used as a framework to introduce empirical and computational evidence that schizophrenia involves, at some level, a disintegration of neuronal interactions. The chapter concludes with an example of computational neuroscience that relates observations on the dimensional complexity of neuronal dynamics in schizophrenia to the disconnection hypothesis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain / physiopathology
  • Brain Diseases / complications*
  • Brain Diseases / pathology
  • Brain Diseases / physiopathology
  • Computer Simulation
  • Electroencephalography
  • Humans
  • Models, Neurological
  • Neurobiology*
  • Schizophrenia / etiology*
  • Schizophrenia / pathology
  • Schizophrenia / physiopathology