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Focusing on cognitive potential as the bright side of mental atypicality

Standard accounts of mental health are based on a “deficit view” solely focusing on cognitive impairments associated with psychiatric conditions. Based on the principle of neural competition, we suggest an alternative. Rather than focusing on deficits, we should focus on the cognitive potential that selective dysfunctions might bring with them. Our approach is based on two steps: the identification of the potential (i.e., of neural systems that might have benefited from reduced competition) and the development of corresponding training methods, using the testing-the-limits approach. Counterintuitively, we suggest to train not only the impaired function but on the function that might have benefitted or that may benefit from the lesser neural competition of the dysfunctional system.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:89461
Date05 March 2024
CreatorsColzato, Lorenza S., Beste, Christian, Hommel, Bernhard
PublisherSpringer Nature
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relation2399-3642, 188, 10.1038/s42003-022-03126-0, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/SFB 940: Volition und kognitive Kontrolle: Mechanismen, Modulatoren, Dysfunktionen/178833530/, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/TRR 265: Verlust und Wiedererlangung der Kontrolle über den Drogenkonsum: Von Trajektorien über Mechanismen bis hin zu Interventionen/402170461/, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/FOR 2698: Kognitive Theorie des Tourette Syndroms - ein neuer Ansatz/360279285/

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