Clinicians and neuroscientists must work together to understand and improve psychological treatments says an article in Nature magazine. The article, written by specialists including Professor Emily Holmes a British Psychological Society Associate Fellow, explained that neuroscience has increased understanding of how to modulate emotion and memory, habit and fear learning. However, it stated that psychological understanding and treatments have not profited enough from these developments thus far. As a result, the report is calling for science to be used to advance the psychological treatment of people with mental health issues, as the emphasis is currently placed too heavily on pharmaceutical options. Great strides can and must be made by focusing on concerns that are common to fields from psychology, psychiatry and pharmacology to genetics and molecular biology, it said. The report added that molecular and theoretical scientists must engage with the challenges currently being experienced by clinical scientists who are developing and delivering psychological treatments. At the same time, clinicians were urged to increase their involvement in experimental science. Read the full article here - l
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:06:22 +0000
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