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Neuropsychology has long relied on lesion studies and one of the main attempts of neuropsychologists was to study the interrelationships between brain lesions and concomitant behavioural changes. With the advent of new methods which are now available for neuropsychological or neurological research, the focus has been changed considerably. Besides the fact that there is a kind of reorientation in neuropsychology there are also new fields coming into play. One of these new fields involves the analysis of relationships between brain structure and function in humans, a research field which has been entitled as “Cognitive Neuroanatomy” by Sandra Witelson (1992). While in the beginning, researchers looked for structure-function relationships by analysing various parts of post mortem brains, the tremendous pace of development in brain imaging technologies has revolutionised our ability to investigate brain structure and function. Techniques are now available to capture features of the anatomy and function of whole brain scales, mapping neuronal dynamics and gene expression as well as growth and degeneration processes that span multi-layer time scales both for post mortem and in vivo cases. The number of brain imaging investigations is also increasing exponentially. A major goal of these new studies is to analyse how the whole brain or parts of it varies across age, gender, disease, in large human populations, due to external stimulation, or whether there are between-hemisphere differences.
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Jäncke, L. (2003). Current Methods for Cognitive Neuroanatomy. In: Hugdahl, K. (eds) Experimental Methods in Neuropsychology. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 21. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1163-2_9
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