Editorial: Advances in brain dynamics in the healthy and psychiatric disorders

Psychiatry aims at diagnosing and treating psychological disorders and other mental health conditions affecting how subjects behave, think, or feel. Psychiatrists resort to a variety of diagnostic techniques, ranging from standard semiotics to physiological testing, and imaging or stimulation techniques, and treatment strategies may be behavioral, pharmacological, or instrumental. However, knowledge of how neural activity translates into behavior is often insufficient to define precise nosological categories and to interact with the brain in a language it can understand. Improvements in both modeling and treatment require a better understanding of the underlying neural processes and finding new meaningful variables to characterize both healthy brain activity and its pathology.