Editorial

Abstract

U ma importante parte da Psicologia é voltada para a compreensão dos fenômenos e processos que permitem ao indivíduo se relacionar com o ambiente, sobreviver e se reproduzir. Funções tais como sensação, percepção, memória, atenção, aprendizagem, são necessárias para conhecer, se orientar e atuar sobre o ambiente. Moduladas por emoção, pelos diferentes estados de consciência, e pelas necessidades regulatórias do corpo, essas funções conduzem o comportamento e o pensamento. Controladas pelo sistema nervoso, sofrem infl uência das condições ambientais e afetam a relação do indivíduo com o ambiente físico e com seus co-específi cos. A intersecção entre Psicologia e Neurociências estuda essas funções, tanto em suas manifestações comportamentais, como nos mecanismos que são responsáveis por sua geração e controle.

Psychology & Neuroscience: The birth of a new journal.

“…Therefore, Psychology & Neuroscience considers articles dealing with psychological dysfunctions, including stress, anxiety, depression, drug addiction, and schizophrenia among other psychopathologies, as well as effects on brain functions caused by neurodegeneration, intoxication, metabolic alterations, genetic changes, and other conditions.Psychology & Neuroscience is an initiative of a Brazilian neuroscience group with an educational background in psychology and working in psychological departments. This group gathered for the first time in 2002 at the IX meeting of the "Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Psicologia" (ANPEPP, National Association of Research and Graduate Education in Psychology), and after two very successful publication endeavors -thematic number in the journal Psicologia USP (Ventura, 2006) and a book (Landeira-Fernandez & Silva, 2007) -it felt the drive and maturity to launch the project of this new journal in 2006, at the XI ANPEPP meeting in Florianóplis, Brazil. Below is a photograph of this group taken in May 17th 2006, when the decision to start this journal was made.The initial purpose of the journal was to improve the impact of neuroscientific knowledge in psychological education, since intersection between psychology and neuroscience in Brazil and other Latin American countries…”

“…Psychology & Neuroscience is an initiative of a Brazilian neuroscience group with an educational background in psychology and working in psychological departments. This group gathered for the first time in 2002 at the IX meeting of the “Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Psicologia” (ANPEPP, National Association of Research and Graduate Education in Psychology), and after two very successful publication endeavors – thematic number in the journal Psicologia USP (Ventura, 2006) and a book (Landeira-Fernandez & Silva, 2007) – it felt the drive and maturity to launch the project of this new journal in 2006, at the XI ANPEPP meeting in Florianóplis, Brazil. Below is a photograph of this group taken in May 17th 2006, when the decision to start this journal was made…”

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“…This group gathered for the first time in 2002 at the IX meeting of the "Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Psicologia" (ANPEPP, National Association of Research and Graduate Education in Psychology), and after two very successful publication endeavors -thematic number in the journal Psicologia USP (Ventura, 2006) and a book (Landeira-Fernandez & Silva, 2007) -it felt the drive and maturity to launch the project of this new journal in 2006, at the XI ANPEPP meeting in Florianóplis, Brazil. Below is a photograph of this group taken in May 17th 2006, when the decision to start this journal was made.…”