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-- NEUROSCIENCES
OF ALL SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES,
THE NEUROSCIENCES SHOW THE HIGHEST
GROWTH POTENTIAL
IN THE NINETIES.
RESEARCH WORLDWIDE
IS TURNING
RAPIDLY TO THE NERVOUS SYSTEM,
AND THE NINETIES HAVE THUS BEEN
DECLARED THE "DECADE OF THE BRAIN."
THE INTEGRATION OF BROAD
SECTIONS OF TRADITIONAL SUBJECT AREAS
INTO NEUROBIOLOGY
IS CREATING
NEW SUBDISCIPLINES,
AND BOTH REDUCTIONISTIC AND INTEGRATIVE
APPROACHES ARE BEING FURTHER DEVELOPED
IN THE PROCESS.
THE MAX PLANCK SOCIETY FOUNDED AN INSTITUTE OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
RESEARCH
IN LEIPZIG
IN
1993 TO STUDY THE NEUROSCIENCES.
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
IS A STILL YOUNG DISCIPLINE,
ALTHOUGH
IT
IS
ALREADY WELL ESTABLISHED ON AN INTERNATIONAL LEVEL,
OCCUPYING THE
AREA WHERE NEUROSCIENCE OVERLAPS WITH BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE.
IT
ENDEAVORS TO FIND OUT WHICH PSYCHOLOGICALLY DESCRIBABLE TASKS ARE
PERFORMED
IN THE BRAIN BY WHICH STRUCTURES AND
IN WHAT FORM.
THE
PLANNED INSTITUTE WILL BE WORKING AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN CLINICAL
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL COGNITION PSYCHOLOGY,
INVESTIGATING
LINKS BETWEEN PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES
IN THE BRAIN
--
SUCH AS THOSE
CAUSED BY CEREBRAL THROMBOSIS,
BRAIN TUMORS,
OR ACCIDENTAL INJURIES
-- AND THE ASSOCIATED CHANGES
IN BEHAVIOR AND EXPERIENCE.
THIS
FIELD HAS RECEIVED A PARTICULAR BOOST FROM TWO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS:
IN THE FIRST PLACE,
THE SCOPE OF NEUROLOGY HAS ACQUIRED A NEW
DIMENSION WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN INVASIVE
((AS PUBLISHED)),
HIGH-RESOLUTION BRAIN IMAGING PROCESSES
(CT ((COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY)),
MRT,
AND PET ((EXPANSIONS NOT PROVIDED))).
THESE PROCESSES MAKE
IT
POSSIBLE NOT ONLY TO LOCATE BRAIN INJURIES WITH MUCH GREATER
PRECISION BUT ALSO TO TRACE THE ACTIVITIES OF SELECTED BRAIN
STRUCTURES
IN THE WAKING STATE AND SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE
PERFORMANCE OF PARTICULAR ACTIONS.
SECONDLY,
CLINICAL
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL COGNITION PSYCHOLOGY HAVE RECENTLY
GROWN MUCH CLOSER TOGETHER UNDER THE CONCEPT OF
"COGNITIVE
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
. " AS A RESULT OF WHICH THE TWO BRANCHES HAVE
STIMULATED ONE ANOTHER TO A REMARKABLE DEGREE AND A MARKED
IMPROVEMENT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED
IN THE
IDENTIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION
OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF THE PATHOLOGICAL PROCESSES THAT
TAKE PLACE
IN THE BRAIN.
IN THE LIGHT OF THESE TECHNICAL AND THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS,
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH MAY BE REGARDED AS HAVING AN
EXTRAORDINARILY HIGH INNOVATION POTENTIAL.
IT MUST ALSO BE SAID
THAT THE RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY HAS
SO FAR LARGELY
PASSED GERMANY
BY.
THE MAIN REASON FOR THIS LOSS OF GROUND PROBABLY
LIES
IN THE FACT THAT THE DISCIPLINES EMBRACING NEUROP SYCHOLOGY
--
PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROLOGY/NEUROBIOLOGY
-- ARE TRADITIONALLY ASSIGNED
TO DIFFERENT FACULTIES AT GERMAN UNIVERSITIES AND ARE EMUS KEPT
SEPARATE AT THE
INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL.
THIS CHASM WILL NOW BE BRIDGED
BY AN INTERDISCIPLINARY MAX PLANCK
INSTITUTE.
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