
The discussion on psychiatric diagnoses and descriptive labels continues…
Dr Valtonen is a neuropsychologist, a member of the evidence-based medicine research group FICEBO at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, and faculty at the University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland.
The discussion on psychiatric diagnoses and descriptive labels continues…
If circular claims are presented together with unfounded claims about purported brain mechanisms, they may further bias individuals towards falsely assuming that biological causes and mechanisms have been identified for psychiatric problems.