DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Devoted to exploring relationships between brain and behavior across the life span, Developmental Neuropsychology publishes scholarly papers on the appearance and development of behavioral functions, such as language, perception, and social, motivational and cognitive processes as they relate to brain functions and structures. Appropriate subjects include studies of changes in cognitive function—brain structure relationships across a time period, early cognitive behaviors in normal and brain-damaged children, plasticity and recovery of function after early brain damage, the development of complex cognitive and motor skills, and specific and nonspecific disturbances, such as learning disabilities, mental retardation, schizophrenia, stuttering, and developmental aphasia. In the gerontologic areas, relevant subjects include neuropsychological analyses of normal age-related changes in brain and behavioral functions, such as sensory, motor, cognitive, and adaptive abilities; studies of age-related diseases of the nervous system; and recovery of function in later life. Empirical studies, research reviews, case reports, critical commentaries, and book reviews are featured in each issue. By publishing both basic and clinical studies of the developing and aging brain, the journal encourages additional scholarly work that advances understanding of the field of lifespan developmental neuropsychology.

发展神经心理学致力于探索大脑和行为之间的关系，发表学术论文，研究行为功能的出现和发展，如语言、感知、社会、动机和认知过程，因为它们与大脑功能和结构有关。适当的科目包括认知function-brain结构变化关系的研究时期,在正常和脑损伤儿童早期认知行为,可塑性和早期脑损伤后的恢复功能,复杂的认知和运动技能的发展,和具体的和非特异性干扰,如学习障碍、智力障碍、精神分裂症、口吃、发育性失语。在老年学领域，相关学科包括神经心理学分析正常年龄相关的大脑和行为功能的变化，如感觉、运动、认知和适应能力;与年龄有关的神经系统疾病的研究;以及在以后的生活中功能的恢复。每一期都有实证研究、研究综述、案例报告、评论和书评。通过发表关于大脑发育和衰老的基础研究和临床研究，该杂志鼓励更多的学术工作，促进对生命发育神经心理学领域的理解。