Editorial: Neuropsychology Through the MRI Looking Glass

LUNGU, Ovidiu and Martin BAREŠ. Editorial: Neuropsychology Through the MRI Looking Glass. FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY. LAUSANNE: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2020, vol. 11, NOV 2020, p. 1-3. ISSN 1664-2295. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2020.609897.

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N2  - Since its inception as a science, psychology has been explicitly preoccupied with the mind-body relationship, specifically with the role that the nervous system plays in shaping how we perceive the world around us and how we react in our interaction with it. The evidence in this regard are the second and third chapters of William James's 1890 “The Principle of Psychology” (Volume 1), which explain the functions of the brain and the general conditions underlying its activity, as well as the entire work of Wilhelm Wundt's 1904 “Principles of Physiological Psychology”, which explicitly linked the evolution of various mental functions to the organization and physiology of the nervous system. Yet, it was not until 1980s when the neuropsychology has established itself as a branch of psychology in its own right, aiming to explain how the brain and the other parts of the nervous system influence one's cognition, emotions and behaviors using a variety of methods from observation and questionnaires to computerized tasks gathering reaction time and electrophysiology. The knowledge thus obtained in healthy individuals was then employed by neuropsychologists in assessing the impact of various diseases on brain structure and function. The next decade, the 1990s, ushered in the neuroscience era, with the development of various techniques of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), of which the functional MRI (fMRI) proved to be a key tool in uncovering, in vivo, the neurophysiological substrate of specific brain functions. Neuropsychologists quickly incorporated these new techniques in their research methods arsenal and nowadays they are part of the regular curricula in most neuropsychology training programs. In the current Research Topic we sought to gather a group of articles that will showcase the use of various MRI techniques in neuropsychology in both healthy individuals and those affected by different diseases, thus highlighting the specific benefits that MRI can bring in this field.
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Basic information
Original name	Editorial: Neuropsychology Through the MRI Looking Glass
Authors	LUNGU, Ovidiu and Martin BAREŠ.
Edition	FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY, LAUSANNE, FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2020, 1664-2295.

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Original language	English
Type of outcome	Article in a journal (not reviewed)
Field of Study	30103 Neurosciences
Country of publisher	Switzerland
Confidentiality degree	is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW	URL
Impact factor	Impact factor: 4.003
Organization unit	Faculty of Medicine
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2020.609897
UT WoS	000592200400001
Keywords in English	neuropsychology; MRI; fMRI-functional magnetic resonance imaging; resting-sate fmri; PET-positron emission tomography
Tags	International impact
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Abstract

Since its inception as a science, psychology has been explicitly preoccupied with the mind-body relationship, specifically with the role that the nervous system plays in shaping how we perceive the world around us and how we react in our interaction with it. The evidence in this regard are the second and third chapters of William James's 1890 “The Principle of Psychology” (Volume 1), which explain the functions of the brain and the general conditions underlying its activity, as well as the entire work of Wilhelm Wundt's 1904 “Principles of Physiological Psychology”, which explicitly linked the evolution of various mental functions to the organization and physiology of the nervous system. Yet, it was not until 1980s when the neuropsychology has established itself as a branch of psychology in its own right, aiming to explain how the brain and the other parts of the nervous system influence one's cognition, emotions and behaviors using a variety of methods from observation and questionnaires to computerized tasks gathering reaction time and electrophysiology. The knowledge thus obtained in healthy individuals was then employed by neuropsychologists in assessing the impact of various diseases on brain structure and function. The next decade, the 1990s, ushered in the neuroscience era, with the development of various techniques of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), of which the functional MRI (fMRI) proved to be a key tool in uncovering, in vivo, the neurophysiological substrate of specific brain functions. Neuropsychologists quickly incorporated these new techniques in their research methods arsenal and nowadays they are part of the regular curricula in most neuropsychology training programs. In the current Research Topic we sought to gather a group of articles that will showcase the use of various MRI techniques in neuropsychology in both healthy individuals and those affected by different diseases, thus highlighting the specific benefits that MRI can bring in this field.

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Editorial: Neuropsychology Through the MRI Looking Glass

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