Diagnosing mental disorders as brain-network disturbances.

Clinical Brain Profiling

Current psychiatric diagnosis groups patients by lists of symptoms. Clinical Brain Profiling (CBP) asks a different question: which brain-network processes are disturbed in this person?

Grounded in computational neuroscience, complex-systems physics and the Free Energy Principle, CBP profiles each patient along network-level dimensions instead of assigning a category. The profile points toward the mechanism behind the symptoms and toward treatment aimed at that mechanism.

The NEP demo lets you walk through a profile yourself.

Abraham Peled, MD

Abraham Peled is a psychiatrist with many years of clinical experience, having chaired departments ranging from open-ward rehabilitation to high-security wards for severely psychotic patients.

He has held a clinical position at the Faculty of Medicine of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and early in his career was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis Medical Center in California. He trained himself in computational neuroscience and complex-systems physics, working to unite them with phenomenological psychiatry.

He believes that bringing psychiatry together with computational neuroscience and complex-systems physics will transform how mental disorders are understood and lead to effective treatment for those who suffer from them.

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