Historical Contributions
scientific firsts
• First scientist to use brain imaging in cultural psychiatry.
• First scientist to use a pretest-posttest design with brain imaging (EEG) data.
• First to propose a Hebbian-inspired Science of Change for neuropsychology and its applications for clinical neuropsychology.
• First to identify individual change phenotypes.
• First to validate a fully naturalistic neuroscience experimental procedure.
• Among the first few scientists to study autism across cultures using comparative psychology methods.
• Coined the term “cultural neuropsychiatry”.