Overview

The Mental Functioning Ontology is an ontology for mental functioning, including mental processes such as cognition and traits such as intelligence, and related diseases and disorders. It is developed in the context of the Ontology for General Medical Science and the Basic Formal Ontology. The project is being developed in collaboration between the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and the University at Buffalo, USA.

The project is being developed with full involvement of all relevant communities, following best practices laid out by the OBO Foundry. Efforts are currently underway to align with related projects including the Behaviour Ontology, the Cognitive Atlas, the Cognitive Paradigm Ontology and the Neural Electro Magnetic Ontologies.

Persons involved

Barry Smith, National Center for Ontological Research and Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, USA

Werner Ceusters, National Center for Ontological Research and Department of Psychiatry, University at Buffalo, USA

Kevin Mulligan, Department of Philosophy and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Janna Hastings, Chemoinformatics and Metabolism, European Bioinformatics Institute; and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland

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Publications

The mental functioning ontology is based on the foundations laid out in the paper Foundations for a realist ontology of mental disease by Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith.

Related Projects

The Emotion Ontology is a fully contained domain specialisation of the Mental Functioning Ontology for the domain of emotions and affective phenomena.