HUMAN BRAIN MAGNETIC FIELDS

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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2003
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• Publication Date: April 28, 1992
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((TEXT)) -- NEUROSCTENCES
OF ALL SCIENTIFTC DISCIPLINES, THE NEUROSCIENCES SHOW THE HIGHEST
GROWTH POTENTIAI, IN THE NINETIES. RESEARCH WORLDWIDE 1S TURNING
RAP:CDLY TO THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, AND THE NINETIES HAVE TAUS BEEN
DECLARED THF. "DECADE OF THE BRAIN." THE INTEGRATION OF BROAD
SECTIONS OF TRADITIONAL SUBJECT AREAS INTO- NEUROBIO.T,OGY IS CREATING
NFW SUBDISCIPLTNES, AND BOTH REDUCTIONTSTTC AND INTEGR~~TIVE
APPROACIiES ARE BEING FURTIiER DEVELOPED IN THE PROCESS.
THE MAX PLANCK SOCIETY FOUNDED AN INSTITUTE OF NEUROPSYCH_0_L__O_GY_
RESEARCH IN LEIPZIG IN 1993 TO STUDY THE NEUROSGIENCES.
EUROPSYCHOLOGY IS A STILL YOUNG DISCIPLINE, ALTHOUGH I1' IS
ALREADY WELL ESTABLTSIIED ON AN INTERNATIONAL LEVEL, OCGIIPYING THE
APT~A WIIF,RIs NEUROSCIENCE OVL,RLA.PS WITII AEHAVIORAL SCIEN(.:~.. IT
ENDEAVORS TO FIND OUT WIi::(~'I.~ PSYCIiOLO;; ICALLY DESr'RIBABLia TASKS ARE
PERFORMED TN THE BRAIN BY WHICH STRUGTURES'AND IN WHAT FORM. THE
PLANNED :INSTITUTE WILL BE WORKING AT THE INTERFACE BET(~T~EN CLINTCAL
i~EUROPSYCHOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAI~ COGNITION PSYCHOLOGY, INVESTIGATING
LTNKS BETWEEN PATIiOLOGICAI CHANGES TN THE BRAIN -- SUCH AS THOSE
CAIJSED BY CEREBRAL THROMBOSIS, BRAIN TUMORS, OR ACCIDENTAL INJURIES
-- AND TILE ASSOCIATED CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR AND EXPERTEN(rE. THIS
FIELD IIAS RECEIVED A PARTICULAR BOOST FROM TWO RECENT I"~VELUPMENT5:
IN THE FIRST PLACE, THE SCOPE OF NEUROLOGY HAS ACCZUTREi:~ A NEW
DIMENSION WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN INVASIVE ((AS PUBLISHED)),
IiTGIi-RESOLUTION BRAIN IMAGING PROCESSES (CT ((COMPUTER TOMOGRAPIiY)),
MRT, AND PET ((EXPANSIONS NOT PROVIDED))). THESE PROCESSES MAKE IT
POSSTBLE NOT ONLY TO LOCATE BRAIN INJURIES WITII MUCH GI,CATER
PRECISION BU'T ALSO TO TRACE TILE ACTIVITIES OF SELECTED-BRAIN
STRUCTURES IN THE WAKING STATE AND STMULTANEOUSLY WITH ?CHE
PERFORMANCE OF PARTICULAR ACTIONS. SECONDLY, CLINICAL
I~EUROPSYCI-IOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL COGNITION PSYCHOLOGY DAVE RECENTLY
GROWN MUCH CLOSER TOG:BTHER UNDER THE CONCEPT OF "COGNI'~;'I~
I~EIJROPS~CIIOLOGY," AS A RESULT OF WHICH THE TWO BRANCIIE~~ fiAVE
STTMULATED ONF. ANOTHER TO A REMARKABLE DEGREE AND A MAI'~~iED
IMPROVEMENT IIAS BEEN ACHIEVED IN THE IDENTIFICATION ANi; DESCRIPTION
OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CORP.ET,ATES OF THE PATHOLOGICAL PROCESSES TiIAT
TAKT'. PLACE TN THE BRAIN.
IN TIIE LIGIiT OF TIiESE TECIIN.[GAL AND TIiEORF.TICAL DEVI:I,OPMENTS,
;[~EUROPSYCHOLOGTC~L RESEA12ClI MAY BE REGARDED A~ HAVING /'?N
EXTRAORDINARILY HIGH INNOVATION POTENTIAL. IT MUST AL."s0 BE SAID
THAT THE RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPSYCIiO OGY' IIAS St) '!`AR LARGELY
PASSED GERMANY BY. THE IIATN REASON FOR THTS LOSS OI' GI'r,t)UND PROBABLY
:LIES IN THE FACT THAT -THIS DISCIPLINES EMBRACING EUROP~`i'CHOLOGY --
PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROLOGY/NEUROBIOLOGY -- ARE TRADITIONls.C~LY ASSIGNED
TO DTFFERENT FACULTIES AT GERMAN UNIVERSITIES AND ARE "'iUS KEPT
SEPARATE AT THE INSTITUTIONAL LEVEE. THIS CfiASM WILL tIOW BE BRIDGED
BY AN IN'CERDISCIPLINARY MAX PLANCK TNSTITUTE.
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A FARTICULAR FEATURE OF THE FOUNDING OF TIiIS INSTITTfTE TS THAT IT
REQUIRES :FACILITIES FOR INSTITUTIONALIZED COOPERATION WITII A
UNTVERSIT'Y TO AN EXTENT THAT HAS NOT TO DATE BEEN~THE NORM FOR MAX
PLANCK INSTITUTES. IT IS ONLY BY WORKING CLOSELY WITH A FACULTY OF
MEDICINE WTTIi AN EFFICIENT CLINICAL FACILITY "'Ii.l1T THE ~`NSTITUTE CAN
ENSURE ACCESS TO A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF CIIRONTCAI,LY BR~~.IN-DAMAGED
PATIENTS 't0 BE ABLE TO WORK SUCCESSFULLY. IN TIIE SAME WAY, IT NEEDS
TO BE ABLE TO WORK WITH A DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY GOVL'RING A WIDE
RANGE OF DISCIPLINES AND OPEN TO NEUROBIOLOGIC:AT, ISSUES.
III. IiUMANITIES AND SG~CIAL SCIENCES ((SUBHEAD))
THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF GERMAN UNITY, THE. LATEST STEPS IN WESTERN
EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
IN EASTERN EUROPE REPRESENT MAJOR INCENTIVES AND CHALLENGES TO
ECONOMIC RESEARCH THAT IT MUST ADDRESS BY DEPLOYING, WHILE AT THE
SAME TIME CRITICALLY REVIEWING, ITS WHOLE ARSENAL OF MI~;1.'HODS.
Nf7MEROUS FIELDS OF NATIONAL ECONOMY RESEARCH ARE AFFECTED, ADDED TO
WHICH SOLVING TIIE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITII THESE PROCESSES REQUIRES
THE DEVELC)PMENT OF NEW ACTION STRATEGIES SUPPORTED BY RESEARCHi.
ECONOMIC RESEARCH IIAD PREVIOUSLY CONCERNED ITSELF MAINLY WITH THE
PROCESSES THAT OCCUR WITHIN GIVEN ECONOMIC SYSTEMS AND WITH TIIE
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THOSE SYSTEMS, NOT WITH CHANGES IN ECONOMIC
ORDERS PURSUED TO THE EXTREME OF TRANSFORMATION. THE INSTITUTIONAL
FRAMEWORK SURROUNDING ECONOMIC PHENOMENA AND ITS MODIF?CATION HAS
CONSEQUENTLY BEEN ANALYZED BY ONLY A VERY FEW ECONOMIS?"S. THE
TRH".NSFOR.MATION OF THE SOCIALIST SYST],MS REVEALED A GLAt.ING
SCIENTIFIC GAP, THE SA*1I APPLIES TO TIIE WIDESPREAD DI~;REGARD FOR
-THE STGNTF'ICANCE OF KNOWLEDGE FOR WORK-SHARINCT ECONOMI#'S, WIIICII,
AMONG OTHER THINGS, LED TO SOCIALIST SYSTEMS STILL PASSING A FEW
DECADES AGO FOR ORGANIZATIONS WHOSE PROBLEMS COULD APPARENTLY BE
SOLVED SOLE:GY IN ECONOMIC TERMS. IiERE T00, TI:IERE WERE JUST A FEW
ISOLATED R.ESEARCIiERS WIIO, DECADE AFTER DECADE, STRESSE:U IiOW TIIE
KNOWLEDGE PROBLEM WAS BEING NEGLECTED IN ASSESSMENTS OF THE
ORGANIZABILITY OF SOCIALIST ECONOMIC SYSTEMS. JUST IiOl~t MUCH THESE
SYSTEMS, PRECISELY AS A RESULT OF T1-IEIR NECESSARILY UNi:CONOMIC
ORGANIZATION, LIVED ON TIIEIR ASSETS TO THE POINT OF OUTRIGHT
ECOLOGICAL RAPE IS ONLY NOW EMERGING TO TIIE FULL. WITII REGARD TO
THE KNOWLEDGE AND INSTITUTION PROBLEM THERE IS A LOT OF C,ROUND TO BE
MADE UP, AND NOT ONLY IN GERMANY, IN BASIC ECONOMIC RE~.'EARCH, THE
:RESULTS OF WHICH WILL THEN BE ABLE TO PROVIDE A BASIS FOR POSSIBLE
:ECONOMIC POLICY MEASURES.
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