Journal of Psychiatry

Emeritus Professor of Cell Biology, Anatomy and Pathology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, New York, United States

Publications

• Research Article   
  The Potential Importance of Electromagnetic Waves for The Treatment of Psychiatric Behavioral Disorders
  Author(s): Richard Ambron*
  
  Efforts by psychiatrists to treat mental disorders are based on what is known about the relationship between the brain and the mind. The prevailing theory is that the functions of the mind responsible for normal and abnormal behavior emerge from the activity of the brain. Thus, disorders of the mind can be reduced to physical phenomena, i.e. the propagation of action potentials along neural networks and transmission across synapses and can therefore be explained in terms of these activities. However, this view cannot explain how higher mental attributes actually emerge from these activities, which is essential for understanding the origin of abnormal behavior. Studies of pain show that the mind and brain are separate entities, both functionally and spatially and this has major implications for treating mental disorders. Pain from an injury, encoded in APs, induces a Long-Term Potentia.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2378-5756.24.28.764

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