Will Institutionalizing Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research Work?
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - 16:40
in Psychology & Sociology
Academic researchers are already bogged down in a sea of government and institutional bureaucracy, committee meetings, guidelines, unspoken rules and lengthy regulations. Will they embrace a formalized top-down process for collaborating? A group of scholars in communications, neuroscience, psychology, population studies, statistics, biomedical engineering and pediatrics hope so. They think their framework would improve things for the researchers that study genes, brain, and environmental factors that matter to the outcomes of population. They seek acknowledgement that future research needs to focus on the examination of the broader population to provide better science on the lives of all individuals in our society. read more