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There are many types of financial transactions which are ubiquitous daily behaviors. These can be objectively quantified in a vast number of ways, making them uniquely efficacious for identifying patterns within the decisions made by individuals. Although financial dysfunction is a common trait of neurological diseases, and the field of behavioral economics already utilizes psychiatric methods to solve problems found within the previously-held assumption of human rationality, financial analysis has been overlooked as a tool of psychiatry and applied clinical neurology. The fields of medicine and economics are generally not seen as having much in common among practitioners of either discipline, and for those who have considered this possibility there are valid concerns regarding the ethics of patient confidentiality with the combined use of both medical and financial data. This is a reasonably simple hurdle to overcome, however, and as the medical community accepts clinically-trained economists among their ranks brand new sets of analytical tools used for diagnoses, treatments, and research becomes available by applying well-established methods in economics to existing frameworks in psychiatry and neurology. By reversing the paradigm of behavioral economics, therein is found the field of financial psychometrics. |
