Editorial

Excerpt

NEUROPSYCHOLOGY REVIEW strives to publish the highest quality systematic reviews on topics relevant to clinicians, researchers, and educators. Systematic reviews help to delineate the knowledge-base of brain-behavior relationships, and to identify critical gaps in our knowledge to encourage focused research and new discoveries. Structured checklists to guide study design and reporting are increasingly being employed in the biomedical literature, including neuropsychology, to improve the transparency of research methods and findings (Lee, 2016; Loring & Bowden, 2014). As an endorser of the EQUATOR Network (http://​www.​equator-network.​org/), NEUROPSYCHOLOGY REVIEW will continue to encourage better reporting transparency by requiring submissions to conform to the PRISMA guidelines (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses; Moher, Liberati, Tetzlaff, & Altman, 2009, see also http://​www.​equator-network.​org/​reporting-guidelines/​prisma/​). We anticipate transitioning to the mandatory requirement of PRISMA guidelines for reporting of systematic reviews in NEUROPSYCHOLOGY REVIEW during 2016. …