The overlap between neuroscience and public policy is broad, encompassing
a wide range of important public policy issues in different areas of
neuroscience. Potential focal areas for work under the joint degree might
include:
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Policy for brain interventions, including new surgical and imaging techniques,
pharmaceuticals for behavioral modification, genetic or stem cell therapies,
neuro-mechanical interfaces, nano-biotechnologies
- Brain function and policy, including issues such as fetal
status, brain death, mental capacity of adolescents and mental health
patients to stand
trial, drug and alcohol use and impairment of mental capacity for dangerous
activities
- Neuroscience and human development: the science of early
childhood development and its role in human, community, and economic
development
programs in
local, national, and global contexts
- Neuroscience and education policy:
the science of early childhood, adolescent, and adult neural development,
educational planning, and curriculum
development
- Neuroscience and human behavior: nature vs. nurture debates, social
behavior, and social policy for violence, suicide, addiction, sexuality
- Neurotoxins
policy: neurotoxin risk and environmental exposure, including special
populations such as fetuses in the workplace; use of neurotoxins
in warfare and police actions
- Research management for the neurosciences,
including funding levels and priorities, management of research
laboratories, facilities, and institutes,
stewardship and leadership within the discipline, human resource
management, PhD and postdoctoral training, training of doctors, nurses, and
technicians
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