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International Journal of Psychoph

Presidential Address 2004

Neuroscientific Psychophysiology: The International Organization of

Psychophysiology (I.O.P.) associated with the United Nations

(New York) in the 21st Century

Constantine A. Mangina

President I.O.P./UN (New York), Montreal Research and Treatment Center, 3587 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B1

Available online 29 September 2005

Abstract

This Presidential Address 2004 emphasizes the pivotal role of Psychophysiology as an integrated neuroscience with a panoply of

electrophysiological and neuroimaging technologies for the establishment of methodologically crucial conceptual links for the understanding

and mapping of brain functions pertaining to cognitive, emotional and motivational processes. Moreover, Psychophysiology’s unique

neuroscientific perspective by integrating functions of central and autonomic nervous systems with behavior in health and disease is

underlined. Based on these developments, the progress of rigorous neuroscientific Clinical Psychophysiology offers possibilities for

diagnosis, treatment and objective evaluation of therapeutic outcome in various pathological conditions.

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Keywords: Psychophysiology; Neuroscience; Clinical Psychophysiology; Brain-body-behavior interrelationships; International Organization of

Psychophysiology; United Nations

The International Organization of Psychophysiology

associated with the United Nations (New York) unites

professional Neuroscientists from around the world and

integrates interdisciplinary Psychophysiology as a leading

brain-body-behavior neuroscience. The established strength

of Psychophysiology is based on its scientific rigor inherent

to biomedical sciences. In this sense, the International

Organization of Psychophysiology, based on its Constitu-

tion and By-Laws, promotes the growth of high caliber

neuroscientific Psychophysiology and applications to the

benefit of humanity (I.O.P./UN, 1982).

As an integrated neuroscience, Psychophysiology pro-

vides the only in vivo theoretical framework with a panoply

of electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques for the

establishment of methodologically essential and crucial

conceptual links for the investigation, understanding and

mapping of brain structures and functions pertaining to basic

cognitive, emotional and motivational processes, as well as,

to normal and pathological conditions (Mangina, 1997, 2003;

0167-8760/$ - see front matter D 2005 Published by Elsevier B.V.

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2005.07.006

E-mail address: mcgill@ca.inter.net.

Naatanen, 2003a; Chiarenza, 2005—this issue; Chiarenza

and Benvenuti, 2002; Chiarenza et al., 2002; Basar,

2005—this issue-a, 2005—this issue-b; Bechtereva and

Abdullaev, 2000; Bechtereva et al., 2004, 2005—this issue;

Beuzeron-Mangina, 1996, 2000; Chen, 2001; Galambos,

2003; Hari et al., 1997; Lindsley, 1995; Ojemann, 2003;

Pasqual-Marqui et al., 1994; Pribram, 2003; Schienle et al.,

2003; Sokolov, 2000; Tamas et al., 1993; Zald and Pardo,

2000). Psychophysiology also includes other bodily systems,

such as the cardiovascular (Lovallo, 2005—this issue),

respiratory (Roth, 2005—this issue), pupillary/ocular (Fotiou

et al., 2000; Granholm and Steinhauer, 2004; Tecce et al.,

2005), endocrine (Al’Absi et al., 2000), muscular (Malmo,

2002; Malmo and Malmo, 2000; Malmo et al., 2003) and

bilateral electrodermal system, an excellent autonomic

indicant of sympathetic nervous system activation con-

trolled by the brainstem reticular formation and modulated

by limbic structures bilaterally (anterior cingulate, amyg-

dala, hippocampus) (Mangina and Beuzeron-Mangina,

1992a,b, 1996, 2004a,b; Mangina et al., 2000); all of which

provide a unique perspective of brain-body-behavior

interrelationships in health and disease. Moreover, psycho-

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physiological theories, methods and techniques reflect an

exponential trend for rigorous neuroscientific Clinical

Psychophysiology for therapeutic management which

includes diagnosis of current clinical status, treatment and

the objective evaluation of therapeutic outcome of patients

afflicted with either degenerative or non-degenerative and

functional disorders of the nervous system (Mangina, 1997,

1998; Mangina and Beuzeron-Mangina, 2004a,b; Beuzeron-

Mangina and Mangina, 2000, 2002, 2004; Beuzeron-

Mangina, 1996, 2000; Chiarenza and Benvenuti, 2002;

Chiarenza et al., 2002; Connolly and D’Arcy, 2000; Dongier

et al., 2002; Duncan et al., 2005—this issue; Ford and

Mathalon, 2004, 2005—this issue; Iacono et al., 2003;

Mirsky and Duncan, 2005—this issue; Naatanen, 2003b;

Pietrini et al., 2000; Polich, 2000; Puri et al., 2001; Ward,

2005—this issue; Ward and Frackowiak, 2004; Zappoli,

2003). This essential effort of psychophysiologists will

continue with added impetus into the 21st Century within

the very vast terrain of psychophysiological inquiry,

research and applications (Andreassi, 2000, in press).

The world renowned and highly acclaimed International

Journal of Psychophysiology–official journal of the Interna-

tional Organization of Psychophysiology–is published with

the fruitful cooperation and support of Elsevier Science, the

most distinguished publishing company dedicated to the

highest standards of excellence in medical sciences. This

official journal of the International Organization of Psycho-

physiology is the only monthly publication in Psychophysi-

ology and constitutes a highly prestigious international forum

of integrated neuroscientific Psychophysiology. Only 40% of

submitted manuscripts are published while 60% are refused

publications. This high rejection rate reflects the very rigorous

standards of the referees and allows the publication of very

high quality original contributions. Moreover, the articles

accepted by the referees and published in the International

Journal of Psychophysiology enjoy the largest readership in

the world since this journal has the most institutional

subscriptions among the journals in the field of Psychophysi-

ology. Several Special Issues of the Journal are dedicated to

crucial themes, thus, paving the way to the future develop-

ment of Psychophysiology and its applications. The Journal is

in an excellent health. We will do our outmost so that the

ascent of the International Journal of Psychophysiology

continues into the 21st Century. In connection to this, we wish

to thank and congratulate the Editorial Board Members of the

Journal who are now all serving as Action Editors.Wewish to

extend our thanks to the former Co-Editor-in-Chief, Prof.

John Gruzelier (London, UK), who recently stepped-down

after more than 20 years of successful service to the Journal.

Our congratulations also to Prof. John L. Andreassi (New

York) who was recently appointed as single Editor-in-Chief

of the official Journal of our World Organization for his

excellent work. Our gratitude goes to their predecessors, Prof.

Natalia Bechtereva and the late Albert Ax.

The 20th Anniversary of our World Organization was

celebrated 2 years ago in Montreal, during the 11th World

Congress of Psychophysiology in 2002. On that occasion,

the International Organization of Psychophysiology, upon

the recommendation of the international community and the

World Health Organization, bestowed the 20th Anniversary

of I.O.P. Awards 2002 again to eminent pillars of

Psychophysiology and related neurosciences. Their major

discoveries and invaluable contributions served as inspira-

tion and encouragement and helped shape the present and

future course of neuroscientific Psychophysiology. In

addition, these exceptional neuroscientists, fully aware of

the potential and importance of their science to humanity,

have served the International Organization of Psychophysi-

ology in various positions with a keen sense of duty and

loyalty since its inception in 1978 and official foundation in

1982. The heartwarming festivities of the 20th Anniversary

of the International Organization of Psychophysiology were

prominent throughout the duration of the World Congress in

Montreal and we are sure that they will be remembered for

many years (Mangina, 2003).

Among the many activities of the International Organ-

ization of Psychophysiology, the item of World Peace is of

major importance on its agenda. For its highly significant

contribution, the International Organization of Psychophysi-

ology was awarded with the prestigious ‘‘Peace Messenger

Prize’’ by the United Nations General Assembly and its

Secretary General (Mangina, 2003).

His Excellency the Secretary-General of the United

Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan, extends his appreciation to the

Boards and Membership of the International Organization of

Psychophysiology for its humanitarian principles along with

the highest standards of excellence in Neurosciences and

sends his best wishes for a successful World Congress of the

Olympics of the Brain-IOP2004.

In fact, there is no other international structure that has

such a synergistic multiplicity of action as our World

Organization (I.O.P.). This synergism conjectures several

components including scientific, medical, technological,

educational, ethical, social, political, transcultural and

international. This reveals that the International Organiza-

tion of Psychophysiology provides an integration of

professional action within a unique world forum at the

cutting edge of neuroscientific progress.

Many thanks to the Government of Greece and the

official representatives of the Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki (Greece) for their support. We wish to express

our appreciation to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

for his warm message to this World Congress. Our

congratulations to the Chairman of the World Congress

Committee and Chairman of the Local Organizing Commit-

tee (Greece) Prof. Fotis Fotiou, for the splendid success of

this magnificent World Congress of the Olympics of the

Brain-IOP2004. We wish also to thank the Scientific

Coordinator of Abstracts, Prof. Helen Beuzeron and her

referees for their dedicated work which allowed the shaping

of an excellent scientific program along with the publication

of the Special Issue of Abstracts in the International Journal

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of Psychophysiology for its timely distribution during this

World Congress (Beuzeron-Mangina and Fotiou, 2004). We

wish to express our thanks to Mrs. Aristea Koulouri and her

efficient team at Eurostar Agency in Athens, for serving

with diligence and success as the Secretariat of the World

Congress of the Olympics of the Brain-IOP2004.

Our gratitude also goes to all those distinguished

Delegates and their accompanying persons who came to

Greece from all over the World to present their findings

and discoveries during a period which continues to be

difficult for the international community. We are partic-

ularly pleased to know that everybody finds this wonderful

land, with excellent security, safety and hospitality as it

was the case just a few weeks ago in Athens when the

Olympic Games finally returned to their birthplace in

Greece to be held with immense success. And now, the

Olympics of the Brain in the Country which also gave birth

to Medicine and to scientific thinking more than 2500

years ago with Hippocrates, Herophilus, Plato and Aristotle

who described the human brain as the central organ of

emotional and mental functions including the seat of

intelligence and of decision making in human beings.

With this line of thinking, it is no wonder that Greece gave

also birth to Democracy. It is equally remarkable the Greek

enchantment for love and learning. This psychophysiolog-

ical need to learn and love the very reasons for the

existence of humanity. We are truly very moved and

honored to have this year our World Congress in this great

Country of Greece where so much was contributed to

World Civilization by the immortal Hellenic spirit which

inspired and nourished humanity more than 3000 years

ago. We thank you Greece!

I now declare officially open, the 12th World Congress of

Psychophysiology—The Olympics of the Brain of the

International Organization of Psychophysiology, associated

with the United Nations.

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