Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?

Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?

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The field of neuroscience has developed vastly over the past decades. The development of fMRI-scanning techniques, allowing in-vivo inspection of the human brain, has led to the speculation that in the near future, it will be possible to define mental disorders as brain disorders, that can be diagnosed based on brain scans. To some, this would be highly preferable because brain scans are more objective and trustworthy than the subjective self-reports psychiatrists and psychologists currently rely on. Others refute the possible implications of neuroscience in the field of psychiatry, stating that it does not add objectivity nor reliability in diagnostics. Can neuroscience make diagnosis of mental disorders objective?
Debaters are: André Aleman, Johanna Dinkelacker, Valentina Lozano en Markus Eronen, Leo Burger
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