Essentia Foundation – A New Vision for Mental Health

A cure to all mental illnesses?

Author: Editorial 13th January 2023 0 Comments

“In one study in Canada, ‘misdiagnosis’”’ of psychiatric labels was found to be 65.9% for major depressive disorder, 92.7% for bipolar disorder, 85.8% for panic disorder, 71.0% for generalized anxiety disorder, and 97.8% for social anxiety disorder.” This article by Mikaela…
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diagnosis, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, Essentia Foundation, Jhean Paul Varela Carrero, Mikaela Marinis

The role of mind in neuroscience

Author: Editorial 28th September 2022 0 Comments

After failing to find anatomical or functional correlates of a variety of psychiatric conditions, Dr. Sarah Durston (neuroscientist and Professor of Developmental Disorders of the Brain at the Department of Psychiatry at the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands) has…
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a coherent system

consciousness, Essentia Foundation, materialism, metaphysics, neuroscience, philosophical physicalism, psychiatry, Sarah Durston, videos

Can brain anatomy and function account for psychiatric conditions?

Author: Editorial 26th September 2022 0 Comments

Prof. dr. Sarah Durston is a Dutch psychiatrist specialized in developmental disorders. In this in-depth interview, she discusses the limits of materialism in accounting for psychiatric conditions based solely on measurable brain anatomy and function.

a coherent system

brain anatomy, consciousness, Essentia Foundation, materialism, metaphysics, neuroscience, psychiatry, Sarah Durston, videos