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Don't leave the “un” off “consciousness”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Neal R. Swerdlow
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0804. nswerdlow@ucsd.edu

Abstract

Gray extrapolates from circuit models of psychopathology to propose neural substrates for the contents of consciousness. I raise three concerns: (1) knowledge of synaptic arrangements may be inadequate to fully support his model; (2) latent inhibition deficits in schizophrenia, a focus of this and related models, are complex and deserve replication; and (3) this conjecture omits discussion of the neuropsychological basis for the contents of the unconscious.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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