Hi Folks! This blog aims to attempt to sensitize the readers about research in neurosciences with a focus on PhD Clinical neurosciences program targeted at medical graduates. Though it is 8 years after the inception of this course, things remain hazy and the beginners are apprehensive to plunge into this opportunity in spite of clearing the required exam.
What is research? It is as simply defined as discovering something. A discovery that will add to the fund of facts of science , arts , literature or any field in that case. Few discoveries change the pace of human progress , few just contribute to make lives of people better.
Science>>Biology>>Neurosciences.. What about it?
Research in science is one of the fantastic job on this planet. Science subjects span Physical sciences, chemistry, Biology etc. I see Mathematics is indeed a science similar to the other ones. As I am into biological sciences (neurosciences), this blog restricts itself to that. Charming thing about biological research is that it deals with life and the products of its research directly benefit the living beings on the earth. Coming to neurosciences, there could not be anything more fascinating than studying a brain, its processes and diseases which distinguishes human beings in the taxonomic ladder. At this moment, the text I am composing and the ideas I am sharing and mechanically typing are all the resultant of dynamic brain processes. (including the communication it is making with your brains now reading this.
I believe that 21st century is an era of neurosciences. To the beginner's despair , it is true that we know very little about this amazing organ, nevertheless it is driving all the great brains to study what this greatness is about and how to understand it. Do you know that Einstein's brain was stolen by the pathologist on call at the cost of his job?. But all the findings were just not acceptable it is not just anatomy that dictates brain's functions and capacities and what dictates in real appears to be intangible (along with few tangible factors like anatomy and chemical processes) as of today to me!!.
From the molecules to the behavior, neuroscience offers tremendous scope for research.
Molecular(genes and the first products) >>subcellular>>cellular >>intercellular(synapses)>>tissue level>>circuitry level>>lobar level>>behavior.(cognition, consciousness etc)
Studying neurotransmitters and the hormones responsible for behavior (not sure where I can fit into this hierarchical flow. But the communication within the cell parts and between the cells and between the different areas of the brain underlines the principles of deciphering the secrets.
Approaches span, molecular approaches, histopathology, electrophsyiology, imaging (functional , structural {gross or tract level and a combination of structural and functional), behavioral interventions.
Interestingly the invention of the computer served a sample and thrown insights into the organization of brain. Currently brain research and the the computer research converge at the point that both are reciprocally giving insights into each other (development of artifical intelligence etc). Computer is ofcourse the simplest version of the master organ of us. Development of newer biomedical technical modalities is aiding the neuroresearch, hence it is not entirely independent.
What is research? It is as simply defined as discovering something. A discovery that will add to the fund of facts of science , arts , literature or any field in that case. Few discoveries change the pace of human progress , few just contribute to make lives of people better.
Science>>Biology>>Neurosciences.. What about it?
Research in science is one of the fantastic job on this planet. Science subjects span Physical sciences, chemistry, Biology etc. I see Mathematics is indeed a science similar to the other ones. As I am into biological sciences (neurosciences), this blog restricts itself to that. Charming thing about biological research is that it deals with life and the products of its research directly benefit the living beings on the earth. Coming to neurosciences, there could not be anything more fascinating than studying a brain, its processes and diseases which distinguishes human beings in the taxonomic ladder. At this moment, the text I am composing and the ideas I am sharing and mechanically typing are all the resultant of dynamic brain processes. (including the communication it is making with your brains now reading this.
I believe that 21st century is an era of neurosciences. To the beginner's despair , it is true that we know very little about this amazing organ, nevertheless it is driving all the great brains to study what this greatness is about and how to understand it. Do you know that Einstein's brain was stolen by the pathologist on call at the cost of his job?. But all the findings were just not acceptable it is not just anatomy that dictates brain's functions and capacities and what dictates in real appears to be intangible (along with few tangible factors like anatomy and chemical processes) as of today to me!!.
From the molecules to the behavior, neuroscience offers tremendous scope for research.
Molecular(genes and the first products) >>subcellular>>cellular >>intercellular(synapses)>>tissue level>>circuitry level>>lobar level>>behavior.(cognition, consciousness etc)
Studying neurotransmitters and the hormones responsible for behavior (not sure where I can fit into this hierarchical flow. But the communication within the cell parts and between the cells and between the different areas of the brain underlines the principles of deciphering the secrets.
Approaches span, molecular approaches, histopathology, electrophsyiology, imaging (functional , structural {gross or tract level and a combination of structural and functional), behavioral interventions.
Interestingly the invention of the computer served a sample and thrown insights into the organization of brain. Currently brain research and the the computer research converge at the point that both are reciprocally giving insights into each other (development of artifical intelligence etc). Computer is ofcourse the simplest version of the master organ of us. Development of newer biomedical technical modalities is aiding the neuroresearch, hence it is not entirely independent.
