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Looking at comorbidity through the glasses of neuroscientific memory research: A brain-network perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2010

Angelica Staniloiu
Affiliation:
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany. astaniloiu@uni-bielefeld.dehttp://www.uni-bielefeld.de/psychologie/personen/ae14/staniloiu.html
Hans J. Markowitsch
Affiliation:
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany. astaniloiu@uni-bielefeld.dehttp://www.uni-bielefeld.de/psychologie/personen/ae14/staniloiu.html Institute for Advanced Study, Alfried-Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany. hjmarkowitsch@uni-bielefeld.dehttp://www.uni-bielefeld.de/psychologie/personen/ae14/markowitsch.html

Abstract

As psychiatric illnesses have correlates in the brain, it is surprising that Cramer et al. make almost no reference to the brain's network character when proposing a network approach to comorbidity of psychiatric diseases. We illustrate how data from combined neuropsychological and functional and structural brain-imaging investigations could inform theoretical models about the role played by overlapping symptoms in the etiology of psychiatric comorbidity and the pathways from one disorder to another.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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