Latif Wani Ab, Ggha Shadab
Cytogenetics and Molecular Toxicology Laboratory, Section of Genetics, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Malays J Med Sci. 2019 Jan;26(1):147-156. doi: 10.21315/mjms2019.26.1.14. Epub 2019 Feb 28.
Psychiatric disorders are prevalent throughout the world and causes heavy burden on mankind. Alone in US, billions of dollars are used for treatment purposes annually. Although advances in treatment strategies had witnessed recently, however the efficacy and overall outcome weren't quite promising. In neurobehavioural sciences, old problems survive through ages and with psychiatric disease, the phenomenon turns intensely complex. While our understanding of brain is mostly based on concepts of particle physics, its functions largely follow the principles of quantum mechanics. The current therapeutics relies on understanding of brain as a material entity that turns to be one of the chief reasons for the unsatisfactory therapeutic outcomes. Collectively, as mankind we are suffering huge loss due to the least effective treatment strategies. Even though we just begin to understand about how brain works, we also do not know much about quantum mechanics and how subatomic particles behave with quantum properties. Though it is apparent that quantum properties like particle and wave function duality coincides with the fundamental aspects of brain and mind duality, thus must share some common basis. Here in this article, an opinion is set that quantum mechanics in association with brain and more specifically psychiatry may take us towards a better understanding about brain, behaviour and how we approach towards treatment.
精神疾病在全球范围内普遍存在，给人类带来沉重负担。仅在美国，每年就有数十亿美元用于治疗。尽管近年来治疗策略有所进展，但其疗效和总体结果并不十分理想。在神经行为科学领域，一些老问题长期存在，而对于精神疾病来说，这种现象变得极其复杂。虽然我们对大脑的理解大多基于粒子物理学的概念，但其功能在很大程度上遵循量子力学原理。目前的治疗方法依赖于将大脑理解为一个物质实体，而这正是治疗效果不尽人意的主要原因之一。总体而言，由于治疗策略效果不佳，人类正在遭受巨大损失。尽管我们刚刚开始了解大脑的工作方式，但我们对量子力学以及亚原子粒子如何表现出量子特性也知之甚少。尽管很明显，诸如粒子和波函数二象性等量子特性与大脑和思维二象性的基本方面相契合，因此必然有一些共同的基础。本文提出一种观点，即量子力学与大脑，更具体地说是与精神病学相结合，可能会让我们更好地理解大脑、行为以及我们的治疗方法。
