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Cognitive Neuroscience and Depression: Legitimate Versus Illegitimate Reductionism and Five Challenges

verfasst von: Scott O. Lilienfeld

Erschienen in: Cognitive Therapy and Research | Ausgabe 2/2007

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Abstract

The provocative articles in this Special Issue underscore the potential of cognitive neuroscience to achieve fruitful integration across diverging levels of analysis. After a discussion of different forms of reductionism and the pragmatic, ideological, and cognitive obstacles standing in the way of achieving integrative explanatory pluralism, I outline five challenges to applying cognitive neuroscience to the study of depression and allied conditions: (1) comorbidity, (2) etiological heterogeneity, (3) ambiguity concerning causal primacy, (4) distinguishing state from trait markers, and (5) distinguishing specific from nonspecific treatment effects. Greater attention to these challenges should assist in bringing about consilience in the conceptualization of depression.

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Titel: Cognitive Neuroscience and Depression: Legitimate Versus Illegitimate Reductionism and Five Challenges
verfasst von: Scott O. Lilienfeld
Publikationsdatum: 01.04.2007
Verlag: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Erschienen in: Cognitive Therapy and Research / Ausgabe 2/2007
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-007-9127-0

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