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Neurosciences in University Sains Malaysia: the Way to Go Forward in Malaysia with Vision 2020.

Jafri Malin Abdullah, (2005) Neurosciences in University Sains Malaysia: the Way to Go Forward in Malaysia with Vision 2020. Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, 12 (2). pp. 1-3. ISSN 1394195X

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Official URL: http://www.medic.usm.my/publication/mjms/

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Universiti Sains Malaysia, School of Medical Sciences, Dept. of Neurosciences

Abstract

A survey of Googles [www.google.com] indicated that there were only 621, 000 hits concerning scientific neuroscience publications from Malaysia of which 161 were from Universiti Sains Malaysia. Hits on publications on neurology were 345,000 and 115,000 for neurosurgery respectively when these two key words were associated with
Malaysia. This is only 20% of what is published by Australia a developed country with a population nearly similar to Malaysia. USM has set upon producing human resources in this field when it initiated the Master of Science (Neurosciences) and PhD by research in the field of neurosciences in 2002. Major research outputs in neurosciences from USM are expected from the fundamental or applied neurosciences group within 2-4 years. At this current moment grants are being requested from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), non-governmental organization such as The National Cancer Council (MAKNA) and overseas funds. The USM brain research cluster groups hope to come out with major research topics in neuroinformatics, mental health and rehabilitation, neural instrumentation, brain mapping, interventional strategies in neurological diseases, teaching-learning strategies in children and adults as well as fundamental neurosciences. The focus of neurosciences in Malaysia has to be supplementary and not repetitive. Models of neuroscience research needs to be made relevant to those actual nervous system diseases common in Malaysia. Most models are different and do not extrapolate directly to the human nervous system. Diseases that needs focusing in the neurosciences in Malaysia range from smoking and drug addiction, learning disabilities, viral neurological infections, hemorrhagic strokes, etnopharmacology, the human brain mapping project, behavioral sciences, new imaging techniques and rehabilitation. Invertebrate transgenic models ranging from the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, fruit fly Drosophila
melanogaster, zebra fish, Daniorerio to yeast like Saccharomyces cerevisiae may be used for some of these researchs.

Item Type:Journal
Keywords:Neurosciences, Malaysia, Strategy, Developing Country
Subjects:R Medicine
ID Code:861

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