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Comorbidity: Cognition and biology count!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2010

Orly Rubinsten  and
Avishai Henik
Orly Rubinsten
Affiliation:
Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities, Department of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel. orly.rubinsten@gmail.com
Avishai Henik
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel. henik@bgu.ac.ilhttp://www.bgu.ac.il/~henik/index.html
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Abstract

We agree with Cramer et al. that pure cases of behavioral disorders with no symptom overlaps are rare. However, we argue that disorders do exist and the network idea is limited and limiting. Networks of symptoms are observed mainly at behavioral levels. The core deficit is commonly at the cognitive or brain levels, and there the story is completely different.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 2-3 , June 2010 , pp. 168 - 170
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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