  CommentaryDecade of the MindManfred Spitzer1,2  1Department of Psychiatry, University of Ulm, Germany 2Psychiatric Hospital at the University of Ulm, Director of the Transfer Center for Neuroscience and Learning (ZNL), Beim Alten Fritz 2, D-89075, Ulm, Germany  author email corresponding author email
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2008,
3:7doi:10.1186/1747-5341-3-7
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Abstract
In the Fall of 2007, ten neuroscientists published a proposal for an interdisciplinary research initiative, the Decade of the Mind, that would focus on four "broad but intertwined areas": mental health, research on high-level cognitive functions, education, and computational applications (such as intelligent machines). I review the basic ideas behind the proposal and discuss the four proposed areas of research. I argue that for research on higher cognitive functions and in particular, for research and practice in education, the Decade of the Mind is a welcome initiative that may change our lives for the better. Therefore, the proposal, which is scientifically interdisciplinary in nature, has to be politically international. | 
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