Mental HealthUnderstanding Language, Behaviour And Cognition
Neuroimaging is a wide-open theme on the congress agenda. The innovative look at the brain opens not only completely new roads to early diagnosis and therapy involving numerous neurological illnesses. It also helps to better understand numerous activities in the central nervous system. As Professor Filippi notes, "Brain mapping techniques have contributed significantly to the study of the neural basis of behavioural and cognitive function.
Our knowledge has been substantially revised by the results of functional neuroimaging investigations, which have highlighted the role of specific networks of brain regions in different aspects of behaviour and cognitive function." Among other fields, researchers have devoted particular interest to the investigation of the neural basis of language, using a combination of modern brain mapping techniques.
"A similar multidisciplinary approach is currently applied to other aspects of cognitive function, such as memory, reasoning and decision making," Prof. Filippi explains.
"In addition, a large body of activity is devoted to the understanding of how "mirror neurons" function and to the definition of brain dominance and movement planning."
These findings, for example, play an important role in the rehabilitation of stroke patients who must learn various movements anew.
European Neurological Society