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Experts astatine an planetary league connected Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (I-CNCNC 2026) astatine NIMHANS connected Thursday emphasised the urgent request to span engineering, exertion and biologic sciences to beforehand probe successful encephalon wellness and cognitive sciences.
Speaking astatine the inauguration of the conference, Subrata Rakshit, erstwhile Director General (Technology Management) astatine the Defence Research and Development Organisation, stressed the value of integrating engineering, artificial quality and biologic sciences to amended recognize encephalon functions specified arsenic memory, attention, cognition and neuroplasticity.
He noted that specified interdisciplinary collaboration could play a cardinal relation successful shaping aboriginal acquisition technologies and improving learning systems by promoting much progressive and adaptive learning environments.
Role of cognitive neuroscience
The conference, organised by Department of Clinical Psychology, was inaugurated by Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao, who highlighted the relation of cognitive neuroscience and multidisciplinary probe successful strengthening intelligence wellness attraction systems.
He besides flagged the increasing nationalist wellness concerns linked to excessive societal media usage and said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has initiated discussions with experts connected ways to modulate its overuse among young people.
Neuropsychological practices
NIMHANS Director Pratima Murthy spoke astir the institute’s interdisciplinary bequest and the value of holistic neuropsychological practices. She said neuropsychology has an important relation not lone successful neurological conditions but besides successful psychiatric disorders specified arsenic schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive upset and behavioural addictions related to societal media.
She besides highlighted the imaginable of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, successful strengthening diagnosis and attraction crossed assorted intelligence wellness and neurological conditions.
Conference chairperson Jamuna Rajeswaran, prof and caput of the Department of Clinical Psychology astatine NIMHANS, spoke astir the evolving world scenery successful neuroscience and its expanding applications crossed clinics, communities, schools and rehabilitation settings.
Need for licensing framework
Organising caput Shantala Hegde emphasised the request to fortify grooming systems and found capable licensing frameworks for objective psychologists and neuropsychologists successful India. She besides called for a stronger multidisciplinary attack to amended neuropsychological care.
The three-day conference, being held from March 5 to 7, has brought unneurotic astir 600 participants from India and respective different countries, including intelligence wellness professionals, neuropsychologists, neuroscientists and science students.
