Abstract
The book about schizophrenia includes conventional chapters as well as nonconventional ones. The nonconventional chapters come out from the models of brain structure and function used in contemporary cognitive science and computational neuroscience.
Based on this model the brain is seen as a set of functional systems. The analysis of patophysiological mechanisms at the functional systems level allows to answer certain questions concerning patophysiological phenomenons.
Moreover, each system is described on different levels: from molecular level to the whole functional system level and together with its cooperation with other systems. The advantage of this approach is the possibility to explain quite conflicting or controversial information about schizophrenia.
The disadvantage is abandoning of common terminology and clinical description. We suggest that the cognitive science and computational neuroscience approach could lead to our better understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia