Mental Illness and the Dynamics of the Brain

How neural networks could help advance psychiatry

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I think we all know by now that the brain is a complex object.

It’s wired up out of 80 billion neurons, with an astounding number of synaptic connections (estimated at a quadrillion, which is so large a number that metaphors don’t help much anymore). Each synapse has its own…