Nigeria should end dependence on foreign neuroscience research – NSN

The President of the Neuroscience Society of Nigeria, NSN, Dr Angela Danborno, has said Nigeria should interruption distant from dependence connected overseas neuroscience probe and physique a probe strategy susceptible of producing solutions to the country’s ain wellness and societal challenges.

Danborno made the telephone portion declaring unfastened the 23rd Scientific Conference and Annual General Meeting of the nine successful Abuja, with the theme, ‘Neuroeducation and Neurotechnology’.

She said accelerated advances successful artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, neuroimaging, computational neuroscience, neurogenetics, brain-machine interfaces and precision medicine were reshaping the knowing of the encephalon and opening caller opportunities for Nigerian researchers.

According to her, “For Nigeria, this presents some challenges and tremendous opportunities, hence the request for the state to instrumentality a much progressive relation successful shaping the aboriginal of neuroscience”

“We indispensable guarantee Nigerian neuroscience does not stay simply a user of cognition generated elsewhere, but becomes an progressive contributor, generating cognition that addresses our ain populations and the unsocial realities of Africa.”

Danborno besides explained that the NSN league was designed to fortify technological exchange, probe collaboration, m...