Decade of the brain
The Decade of the Brain ( Engl. Decade of the Brain ) was proclaimed by the US government initiative to step up neuroscientific research. The initiative was proclaimed by President George HW Bush on July 17, 1990 in Presidential Proclamation 6158 and lasted until 1999. The research efforts initiated by them and financially supported within the framework of these efforts gave brain research a new profile and yielded new insights.
Emergence
In 1988 the National Advisory Council of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) published a report entitled Decade of the brain; Answer through scientific research , in which it was concluded that a large number of neurological diseases that affect a large number of people could be cured or at least alleviated with sufficient support from scientists and their research. In 1989 the Congress of the United States decided with the House Joint Resolution 174 in the decade from 1990 to 1999 to particularly promote research into the brain, its diseases and their consequences, as well as their treatment options. President George HW Bush proclaimed the Decade of the Brain on July 17, 1990 in Presidential Proclamation 6158, retroactively from January 1, 1990 . The aim was to particularly focus and promote neuroscience in the United States.
In 1992 a collaboration was achieved with the Dana Foundation , which had already shown itself to be a sponsor of medical research. The newly founded Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives was able to fund numerous projects as part of the Decade of the Brain . Among other things, the Brain Awareness Week , which takes place every year in March, was founded in 1996 as a week of education and information.
Reactions
International reactions
Many national and international neurological or neurosurgical societies took the Decade of the Brain as an opportunity to also become active within the framework of a Decade of the Brain and started numerous projects. In numerous countries, the model of the Decade of the Brain also led to an increase in funding for neurosciences. For example, Japan invested $ 125,000,000 in its own neuroscience initiative in 1997 and increased the amount up to six times over the following years. In 1997, based on the American model, the European Dana Alliance for the Brain was founded together with the Dana Foundation .
Decade of the human brain
In Germany, a comparable initiative was launched in April 2000 for the period from 2000 to 2010 with the Decade of the Human Brain . It was under the direction of well-known scientists such as Christian E. Elger , director of the University Clinic for Epileptology Bonn , as spokesman and the then Federal Minister for Economics and Labor, Wolfgang Clement as patron of the initiative.
Bone and Joint Decade
In 1999, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations declared the decade from 2000 to 2010 to be the Bone and Joint Decade , in which research into musculoskeletal diseases was to be particularly encouraged.
Web links
- Decade of the Brain Home Page on loc.gov (Library of Congress)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Proclamation 6158 of July 17, 1990, Decade of the Brain, 1990-1999. By the President of the United States of America ( Online PDF 411KB)
- ↑ a b P. N. Tandon: The decade of the brain: a brief review. In: Neurology India. Volume 48, Number 3, September 2000, pp. 199-207, ISSN 0028-3886 . PMID 11025621 . (Review).
- ^ Bill Summary & Status - 101st Congress (1989–1990) - HJRES.174 - THOMAS (Library of Congress) on thomas.loc.gov
- ↑ Brain Awareness Week on dana.org
- ↑ European Dana Alliance for the Brain (EDAB) on dana.org
- ↑ Brigitte Stahl-Busse: Decade of the human brain. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, press release of November 5, 1999 from the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on September 15, 2015.
- ^ The Bone and Joint Decade - Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health at bjdonline.org