Neuroscientific Psychophysiology: The International Organization of Psychophysiology (I.O.P.) associated with the United Nations (New York) in the 21st Century.
This Presidential Address 2004 emphasizes the pivotal role of Psychophysiology as an integrated neuroscience with a panoply of electrophysiological and neuroimaging technologies for the establishment of methodologically crucial conceptual links for the understanding and mapping of brain functions pertaining to cognitive, emotional and motivational processes. Moreover, Psychophysiology's unique neuroscientific perspective by integrating functions of central and autonomic nervous systems with behavior in health and disease is underlined. Based on these developments, the progress of rigorous neuroscientific Clinical Psychophysiology offers possibilities for diagnosis, treatment and objective evaluation of therapeutic outcome in various pathological conditions.
Mangina
Constantine A
CA
President I.O.P./UN New York, Montreal Research and Treatment Center, 3587 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. mcgill@ca.inter.net
D009488:Neurosciences / Q000639:trends*; D011603:Psychophysiology / Q000639:trends*; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D014480:United Nations