Provide a brief overview of the five principles Kandel mentioned in his 1998 article about neuroscience and psychotherapy.

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Principle 1: All mental processes, even the most complex psychological processes, come from operations of the brain. The mind is a range of functions carried out by the brain.
Behavioral disorders that characterize psychiatric illness involve disturbances of brain function.
Principle 2: Genes are important determinants of interconnections between neurons in the brain and the details of their functioning.
Principle 3: Social or developmental factors can exert actions on the brain to produce mental disorder. Learning dysfunctional behavior produces alterations in gene expression.
Principle 4. Alterations in gene expression brought on by learning lead to changes in patterns of neuronal connections.
Principle 5. When psychotherapy is effective, it does so through learning, by producing changes in gene expression that change the strength of synaptic connections and structural changes that change the anatomical pattern of interconnections between nerve cells of the brain.