  CommentaryDecade of the MindManfred Spitzer1,2  1
Department of Psychiatry, University of Ulm, Germany 2
Psychiatric 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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20 February 2008 |
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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