Jornal de Neurociências e Pesquisa Clínica

Salient features of Neuro psychology in medicine

Martha E. Shenton

Neuropsychology is that the discipline which investigates the relations between brain processes and mechanisms on one hand, and cognition and behavioral control on the opposite . The term neuropsychology features a long history, but it had been only within the 1960s that an autonomous field of scientific inquiry thereupon name was formally established on the occasion of the inspiration of a world scientific journal called Neuropsychologia. The subsequent evolution of neuropsychology occurred by way of the refinement of the anatomo-clinical approach in brain-injured patients and therefore the development of experiments aimed toward establishing correlations between mental performances and brain organizations in healthy humans.