This paper considers psychotic symptoms in terms of false inferences or beliefs. It is based
on the notion that the brain is an inference machine that actively constructs hypotheses to …

Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles
of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

Computational Psychiatry aims to describe the relationship between the brain's
neurobiology, its environment and mental symptoms in computational terms. In so doing, it …

Psychiatry faces fundamental challenges with regard to mechanistically guided differential
diagnosis, as well as prediction of clinical trajectories and treatment response of individual …

Computational psychiatry is a rapidly growing field attempting to translate advances in
computational neuroscience and machine learning into improved outcomes for patients …

Predictive processing (PP) has been repeatedly presented as a unificatory account of
perception, action, and cognition. In this paper, we argue that this is premature: As a unifying …

Delusions are the false and often incorrigible beliefs that can cause severe suffering in
mental illness. We cannot yet explain them in terms of underlying neurobiological …

Visual perception is one of the basic tools for exploring the world. However, in
schizophrenia, this modality is disrupted. So far, there has been no clear answer as to …

BACKGROUND: Neuroimaging studies of emotion in schizophrenia have reported
abnormalities in amygdala and other regions, although divergent results and heterogeneous …