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This article introduces recent research in application of Psychophysics to the disciplines of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience in the field of Mental Science. This application necessi-tates a broadening of the usual subject matter of Psychophysics, which traditionally covers the capturing and measuring of sensory stimuli at the periphery of the nervous system and their fur-ther reverberation within, into the development of mathematical-physics constructs to frame the entire Architecture of the Human Mental, along with its dynamic processes and disorders. This research has been recently divulgated in the monograph: Functional Architecture of the Human Mental - A Reference Psychophysics Treatise of Human Mentation and its Disorders.(24) We, the two authors, attempt to apply physical law as utilized in the core physical sciences to the etiol-ogy of mental disorders and exegesis of mental phenomena in general. Our primary pursuit is to lay the groundworks for precision medicine in the etiology and treatment undertaken in Psycho-pathology by seizing the quantifying tools available in mathematical physics. It is worth mention-ing that this strain of Psychophysics pertains to the Theoretical Physics framework dubbed Quan-to-Geometric Theory of recent inception by one of the authors. We are going to show in this arti-cle that the psychophysics constructs enshrined in this framework provide the glue that resolves the starch sub-field differences and binds it all in Mental Science, which is to say Psychology to Psychiatry, Psychiatry to Neuroscience and the latter two to the Psychopharmacology, in a man-ner that potentially results in great benefits for public mental health. It is well known that the en-tire field has been under the strides of dissention for the last decade and thus in need of unification at both the analytic and clinical-empirical level for further progress in Psychopathological Medi-cine. In this paper, we also undertake an extensive and conclusive discussion of the Mind-Brain dualism, an all-time unsolved subject in Neuroscience, from both a biological and mathematical physics standpoint. |
