Psychiatry at the Margins

Psychiatry at the Margins

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Psychiatry at the Margins
Psychiatry at the Margins
A spherical cow in a vacuum

A spherical cow in a vacuum

Grace Lindsay on Biology & Mathematics

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Awais Aftab
Mar 05, 2023
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Psychiatry at the Margins
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“Biology – including the study of the brain – has been slower to embrace mathematics than some other fields. A certain portion of biologists, for reasons good and bad, have historically eyed mathematics with some scepticism. In their opinion, mathematics is both too complex and too simple to be of much use.

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