Given the current political climate, we are pleased to host this thought-provoking article by 2 of our Expert Contributors. Dear Mr or Mrs Next President: how can you help our minds take better care of our brains?
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Ask Not What The Health System Can Do For You...
-- By Simon J. Evans, PhD and Paul R. Burghardt, PhD.
With the presidential debates gearing up again we are sure to hear more about health care. But we propose a slightly different question. In addition to asking how we can get more people healthcare coverage, we should also ask why so many people are sick in the first place.
The words of John Kennedy might today be, “Ask not what the health care system can do for you. Ask what you can do to reduce the health care burden”. But before delving into what we can do, let’s take a look at some realities that our next president could face in their first ‘State of the Union’ address.
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We are very happy that Joaquin Fuster, one of our scientific advisors, has won the 2007 George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience.
The George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience was established in 1995 by the Cognitive Neuroscience Society and the James S. McDonnell Foundation to honor the career contributions of George A. Miller to cognitive neuroscience...The prize is awarded to the nominee whose career is characterized by distinguished and sustained scholarship and research at the cutting-edge of cognitive neuroscience. Extraordinary innovation and high impact on international scientific thinking should be a hallmark of the recipient’s work.
Dr. Joaquin Fuster is Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Neuropsychiatric Institute and Brain Research Institute of University of California at Los Angeles' School of Medicine. Fuster’s long research career has had wide-ranging implications for our understanding of the brain mechanisms of cognition.
The Neurocritic discusses Joaquin Fuster’s model of cognitive organization, Paul discusses Fuster’s work. Both are pretty technical. We will interview Dr. Fuster for our Neuroscience Interview Series during the summer to make his exciting research accessible to all readers.
