NIMHANS Has Announced Entrance Test Results 2010,Tancet 2010 Application form
NIMHANS has announced Entrance Test Results 2010-11. See the website http://www.nimhans.kar.nic.in/aca_admission/default.htm for more details.
The National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences is a multidisciplinary Institute for patient care and academic pursuit in the frontier area of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences.
The institute is recognized as the premier institute in the field of psychiatry not only in India but across the globe. Advanced programs in the area of services, training and research have been developed in the area of biological,behavioral and basic sciences in the relation to the brain-mind-behavior-axis.
The functioning of the Institute is under the direction of the NIMHANS society with the Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare as President, and the Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Government of Karnataka as Vice-President.
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Nimhans keen on studying Basu’s brain: BANGALORE: Even as some people in their sixties fall victim to dementia, Marxist legend Jyoti Basu’s mind was sharp and agile well into his nineties. That’s got the Bangalore-based National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (Nimhans) thinking. It would like to study his brain to figure out what made him tick.
The patriarch had donated his body for medical research to Kolkata’s SSKM Hospital. If the hospital is willing to hand over his brain to Nimhans for research, the Bangalore institute will explore the numerous age-related changes in the human brain.
“There are some factors which prevent the fast aging of the brain. We want to look into that,” Dr D Nagaraja, director, Nimhans, told TOI. “It won’t be right to ask for the organs of a veteran politician, but we’re ready to conduct research on his brain if SSKM Hospital gives it to us.”
Dr S K Shankar, professor and head of neuropathology and project coordinator of the Nimhans Brain Bank, said: “A donated brain is the only means to understand the functioning of the human brain. It’s only through research that we can distinguish an adult and aging brain. The confidentiality of the brain, like those of other donors, will be maintained. It will be a significant contribution to research.’’
The Brain Bank has over 150 samples of brain tissue, with some affected by Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and motor-neuron diseases. Unlike the kidney, liver or heart, the brain cannot be transplanted; it can be used only for research.
Samples from the Brain Bank have contributed to many significant findings — like the discovery of AIDS encephalopathy as a distinct entity in the paediatric age group, treatment for Alzheimer’s and development of L Dopa therapy for Parkinson’s. Since brain cells degenerate fast, research is best done on fresh tissue. Brains and tissue fluids are collected during autopsy with the consent of close relatives.
