{"id":62553,"date":"2011-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/former-congressman-kennedy-big-on-neuroscience-at-uri\/"},"modified":"2011-12-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T00:00:00","slug":"former-congressman-kennedy-big-on-neuroscience-at-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/12\/former-congressman-kennedy-big-on-neuroscience-at-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Congressman Kennedy big on neuroscience at 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNeuroscience launch continues today with talk by world-renowned researcher<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 December 6, 2011 \u2013 Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy stressed the importance of the fight against brain-based illnesses when he spoke last week at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Memorial Union Ballroom. His presentation kicked off a series of events celebrating 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s new interdisciplinary graduate neuroscience program.<\/p>\n


\nThe series continues with a lecture today, Dec. 6 at 3 p.m. at the University Club, by Patrick Aebischer, the president of Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Aebischer is known for his research on the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases using cell and gene transfer.<\/p>\n


\nKennedy referred to brain disease as the new frontier in scientific research.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe need to find a way to track and treat dementia and other brain-based illnesses,\u201d said Kennedy. \u201cThat is the holy grail of medical research.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nHe called the brain the \u201chighway system of basic science,\u201d and compared the individual diseases to off-ramp exits, saying that people need to travel on the highway to get where they\u2019re going faster. Kennedy said that everyone is affected by brain-based illnesses in some way, and the future of the economy rests on our understanding of the brain.<\/p>\n


\nKennedy said that the only way to make progress on solving this issue is if political science and neuroscience unite.<\/p>\n


\nAspects of past presidential campaigns have influenced Kennedy\u2019s neuroscience research campaign, including statements made by his late uncle, President John F. Kennedy. Patrick Kennedy\u2019s motto, \u201cIt\u2019s the brain, stupid,\u201d is loosely based on former President Bill Clinton\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s the economy, stupid,\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n


\nKennedy calls the brain \u201cthe last medical frontier,\u201d a term that he derived from the late President Kennedy\u2019s famous moon shot speech, when he referred to traveling to the moon as \u201cthe new frontier.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe difference now,\u201d said Kennedy of this new frontier, \u201cis that we want to go to inner space instead of outer space. The neuroscientists are our astronauts.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe United States kept John F. Kennedy\u2019s promise of putting a man on the moon within the decade, and Patrick Kennedy plans to do the same with neuroscience research and discoveries on how to cure brain-based illnesses.<\/p>\n


\nHe said that the \u201cSputnik\u201d in this effort that will motivate people is our American heroes. Kennedy said veterans are suffering with brain illnesses. The most significant war wounds today, even more so than typical battle injuries, are post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, which result in suicide in many cases.<\/p>\n


\nKennedy co-founded One Mind for Research, a national organization that strives to raise money to learn more about neuroscience in hopes of finding a cure for brain-based diseases by 2020. The National Institutes of Health, President Barack Obama, and the pharmaceutical industry are supporting this collaborative effort.<\/p>\n


\nKennedy said that taking a leading role in neuroscience research is a terrific opportunity for Rhode Island to stimulate its current economy by creating new jobs for tomorrow. This effort can put the state on the map globally.<\/p>\n


\nTo learn more about One Mind for Research, please visit www.1mind4research.org.<\/p>\n


\nThis release was written by Danielle Sanda, an intern in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Department of Communications and Marketing and a public relations major.<\/p>\n


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\nNEUROSCIENCE CAMPAIGN: Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy spoke at 溏心vlog免费B站 about neuroscience research efforts, in hopes of finding a cure for brain-based illnesses.

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