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Clinical neuroscience
Clinical neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that 7. Discovering new treatments for pain, including
focuses on the fundamental mechanisms that underlie neuropathic pain
diseases and disorders of the brain and central nervous 8. Treating disorders of neural signaling and patho-
system.[1] It seeks to develop new ways of diagnosing logical synchrony
such disorders and ultimately on developing novel treat- 9. Treating disorders of immunity or inflammation
ments. 10. Treating metabolic and mitochondrial disorders
Clinical neuroscientists — including psychiatrists, 11. Developing new treatments for depression
neurologists and other medical specialists — use basic re- 12. Treating addictive disorders
search findings to develop diagnostic methods and ways 13. Improving treatment of schizophrenia
to prevent and treat neurological disorders that affect 14. Preventing and treating cerebrovascular disease
millions of people.[2] Such disorders include addiction, 15. Achieving personalized medicine
Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, anx- 16. Understanding shared mechanisms of neurode-
iety disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, generation
autism, bipolar disorder, brain tumors, depression, Down 17. Advancing anesthesia.
Syndrome, dyslexia, epilepsy, Huntington’s Disease, mul- In particular, under point #1, it is advocated that bet-
tiple sclerosis, neurological AIDS, neurological trauma, ter integrated and scientifically driven curricula for prac-
pain, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Parkinson’s disease, titioners of clinical neuroscience be developed, and that
schizophrenia, sleep disorders, stroke, Tourette Syn- such curricula be shared among neurologists, psychia-
drome, among many others.[3] trists, psychologists, neurosurgeons and neuroradiolo-
While neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry are gists.
the main medical specialties constituting clinical neuro- Given the various ethical, legal and societal implica-
science, other medical specialties such as neuroradiolo- tions for healthcare practitioners arising from advances
gy, neuropathology, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngolo- in neuroscience, the University of Pennsylvania has in-
gy, anesthesiology, and rehabilitation medicine are also augurated the Penn Conference on Clinical Neuroscience
considered by some as clinical neuroscience disci- and Society in July 2011.[8]
plines.[4] [5]
The One Mind for Research Forum[6] held in Boston,
Massachusetts on May 23-25, 2011 - attended by Vice
President of the United States Joe Biden, convened by
See also
former congressman Patrick J. Kennedy and chaired by • Behavioral neurology
Harvard Provost Steven Hyman - produced the blueprint • Neuropsychiatry
document A Ten-Year Plan for Neuroscience: From • Neuropsychology
Molecules to Brain Health [7]
Health. • Society for Neuroscience
In this document contributed by leading neurosci-
ence practitioners in the United States, 17 key areas of
opportunities are listed under the section Clinical Neuro-
References
science.
science These include: [1] UCL Clinical Neuroscience
1. Rethinking curricula to break down intellectual si- [2] Society for Neuroscience - What is Neuroscience?
los [3] Society for Neuroscience - Brain Facts
2. Training translational neuroscientists and clinical [4] University of Pennsylvania Clinical Neuroscience
investigators Track
3. Investigating biomarkers [5] UCL Clinical Neuroscience
4. Improving psychiatric diagnosis [6] One Mind for Research
5. Developing a “Framingham Study of Brain Disor- [7] A Ten-Year Plan for Neuroscience: From Molecules
ders” (i.e., longitudinal cohort for central nervous system to Brain Health
disease) [8] Penn Conference on Clinical Neuroscience and
6. Identifying developmental risk factors and produc- Society
ing effective interventions
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