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Book review
Disordered mind and brain: the neural basis of mental symptoms
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By Peter F Liddle (Pp 320, £40.00). Published by Gaskell, London, 2001. ISBN 1-901242-65-X
The premise of this book is that the key to understanding the neural basis of the major mental disorders is an understanding of the origin of five symptom clusters or dimensions common to these disorders. These are reality distortion (hallucinations and delusions); disorganisation (of thought and behaviour); psychomotor poverty and excitation; depression and elation; and anxiety. Thus, …