Mental disorders within a cognitive architecture

This paper explores how mental disorders of certain types might be explained based on mechanisms and processes of human motivation (including drives and goals) and action selection (as well as other related mechanisms and processes), within a generic, comprehensive computational cognitive architecture model. Several simulation tests have been conducted that demonstrate that the model is reasonable, and captures some characteristics of certain mental disorders. The work is a first step in showing the feasibility of integrating mental disorders modeling/simulation into a cognitive architecture model.