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NEUROSCIENCES INDIA
GROUP
Established in the new millenium,
Neurosciences India Group is a virtual grouping
of enthusiastic neuroscience professionals.
Our's is a unique "Triple E mission"
in the neurosciences arena. Through our courses,
workshops, symposia and conferences we are continually
striving to
- Empower through Education
- Enable Research Development
- Enhance Research Policy .
Neurosciences India Group
began its activity in 2000 with an international
workshop on epilepsy. Since then our annual
February workshops have become a landmark event
in the neurosciences calendar. Movement Disorders
(2002), Dementia (2003) and Stroke (2004) were
some important disorders covered in this way.
From 2005 to 2007 we matured into Annual Courses
in Clinical Neurosciences, addressing the transition
between laboratory and clinic, in many important
neuroscience disciplines. Along this pathway
of progression, the nature and scope of our
programs also increased. We now offer an average
of six educational events per annum with an
international starcast of neuroscience leaders
from across the world serving as faculty resource
persons. The programs we organise include problem
and disease focussed symposia, research development
workshops and training courses.
In the academic period 2007-2008
our activity has expanded further to include
the development and enhancement of health policy
for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders
through consensus building. We chose epilepsy
the most common serious neurological disorder,
establishing together with the Indian Epilepsy
Association a National Working Group on "Epilepsy
and Disability". This working group has
now met on two occasions and has been linked
with the Neuropsychiatry Commission of the International
League Against Epilepsy. A novel clinical and
health policy paradigm "Disabling Epilepsy"
has emerged from these workshops and will be
the subject of an International Consensus Conclave
in February 2008.
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