Neuropsychology, Mental Health and Brain Disorders
A section of Psychology International (ISSN 2813-9844).
Section Information
It is well known that most psychiatric disorders are associated with cognitive impairment and that neuropsychological approaches can help unravel the mechanisms and factors underlying mental and brain disorders. Neuropsychology provides tools and insights to help psychiatrists, patients and other stakeholders to develop a better understanding of how, why, and in what capacity these disorders and symptoms occur. The main goal of this section is to understand the development of neuropsychological approaches to the investigation, description, measurement and management of a wide range of mental illnesses and brain disorders. Another goal is to better explain the rationale for examining neuropsychological processes within the clinical disorders. We hope to bring together the perspectives of neuroscientists, psychiatrists and philosophers.
This section publishes work across the full continuum of neuropsychology, mental health and brain disorders, from molecules and the brain to institutional healthcare and environmental outcomes impacting mental health and brain disorders. It focuses on early diagnosis, prevention, prognosis, interventions and treatments. Research areas may include (but are not limited to):
- Schizophrenia,
- Antisocial personality disorder.
- Neuropsychology and neuroimaging of emotion in moral cognition,
- Autism,
- Learning and attention disorders,
- Concussion and traumatic brain injury,
- Epilepsy,
- Brain cancer,
- Stroke,
- Artificial intelligence (AI) prediction, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of NMHBD,
- Anxiety and depression,
- Brain injury (BI) as a risk factor for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease,
- Brain neurobiology of mental illnesses,
- Neuropsychology, behavioural and emotional disorders in adults and children,
- Bipolar affective disorder;
- Neuropsychology and children and youth sexual abuse and exploitation,
- Delusion disorder,
- Dementia,
- Dissociation and dissociative disorders,
- eHealh, dHealth and mental health,
- Impact of individual genes on risk for mental and psychiatric illness,
- LGBT-related mental illnesses and suicide,
- Mental illnesses related to pandemic infectious diseases,
- Myths of mental health,
- Myths of sexuality,
- Neurological disorder,
- Neurodevelopmental disorders,
- Paranoia,
- Psychosis,
- Reducing psychiatric comorbidities in neuropathological disorders,
- Religion, health and mental health,
- Religion, sexuality and mentality,
- Suicidal ideation in childhood and adolescents,
- Sexual and mental health,
- Neuropsychology, cyberbullying, race/ethnicity in schools and mental health,
- The nexus between technology, human sexuality and health,
- War, armed conflicts, and mental health,
- Substance abuse as causes of neuropathology and mental illnesses.
