Autor/es reacciones

Ignacio Morgado

Professor Emeritus of Psychobiology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and full member of the Spanish Academy of Psychology

The article is a theoretical exploration that seeks to understand the complex interplay between genes, environment and the passage of time in the development of mental illness and other social factors such as ideological indoctrination or chronic geopolitical trauma. To this end, it proposes a new concept, the ‘criticome’, which aims to encompass all the experience acquired by the nervous system during critical periods of development and synaptic plasticity up to the age of 25, with the intention of generating knowledge and therapeutic, educational and cultural benefits always related to mental health.

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