Disorder of neurodevelopment as a dynamic process and the hyperscanning approach

Journal title RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA
Author/s Michela Balconi
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2022/4 Language Italian
Pages 7 P. 19-25 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rip2022oa15372
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Starting from the question posed by the target article: «Could a different approach to research then allow the passage from the results of scientific investigations, inspired by them, to the results of research?», this contribution aims to identify innovative trajectories that find, in new research paradigms, more functional pathways for the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders.Focusing primarily on a methodological analysis level, the contribution explores how new approaches based on the hyperscanning paradigm can offer an alternative perspective of such disorders as a result of an ongoing process, rather than as an anchor to static prototypical categories aimed at categorizing the symptom/syndrome. It becomes central to grasp the dynamics of interpersonaltuning or inter-brain cooperative language in order to define a new object of clinical analysis, represented by the dynamics and history of that symptom rather than by a still image referred to the current situation. On the clinical side, the applicative and potentially rehabilitative impact is prefigured as of undoubted interest. In this direction, it is necessary that the diagnostic setting can become a moment of evaluation of the quality of the relationship through the symptomatic manifestation or its absence, in the real dynamic that it intends to represent, extending the focus of observation from the single patient to the dyad or to the group. It is possible to conclude that taking into account research data from neuropsychology, neuroscience, and clinical observation is undoubtedly a compelling challenge in the wake of a re-definition of neurodevelopmental disorders for diagnostic purposes.

Keywords: ; Hyperscanning; Interpersonal-tuning; Neurodevelopment; Process

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Michela Balconi, Il disturbo del neurosviluppo come processo dinamico e l’approccio hyperscanning in "RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA" 4/2022, pp 19-25, DOI: 10.3280/rip2022oa15372