"In the near future, neurobiology will address a matter of more general and fundamental importance: the biology of human mental processes. ...Psychology and psychiatry can illuminate and define for biology the mental functions that need to be studied if we are to have a meaningful and sophisticated understanding of the biology of the human mind."
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Science authorsAcademics from AustriaNobel laureates in Physiology or MedicinePsychiatrists from AustriaPhysicians from Austria
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Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind (2008)
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