Steven Hyman

But what we've never really had is the underlying anatomic biological understanding so we could be very precise in dealing with what actually those symptoms were caused by.

And one of my favorite phrases, so Dr. Steve Hyman was the director of National Institutes of Mental Health back in 2010.

And he described this, I thought, beautifully, in that he wrote this article, and it was talking about the epistemic prison.

And when you think about epistemology or how we understand things or how we study things, what he meant by this was this categories that at the time, again, the same ones were put together for very good reasons.

But a psychiatrist who is also looking at the brain and also looking at networks, that's not reimbursable because it doesn't fit in the CPT codes.

So it is an important piece, I think, that this is taken not just at the level, but really of science, the level of policy and structure.

And this is where it goes back to that original, all the way back to the NIH's, you know, Steve Hyman's comments about the epistemic prism we and again the ap is working on this this is not something i'm developing i'm just trying to help unleash what the field wants to do already which is add this bring physiologic explanation to augment verbal description so we can provide precise holistic care just like we do for the rest of medicine

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