Epineuromics: Implications for development

Publication date: Available online 20 June 2018Source: New Ideas in PsychologyAuthor(s): Jonathan D. Moreno, Jay SchulkinAbstractWe note a curious absence in the nomenclature of neuroscience. In neuroscience, neuromics is the study of the totality of neurons in an organism. But the nervous system cannot be fully understood without an account of its interactions with influences that are independent of it. The term we recommend, epineuromics, highlights the continuity and permeability of neural changes within the larger environment. Epineuromics captures the appreciation that the brain is labile but constrained, that it is partly a product of environing information.
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research