Iran Opens Brain Innovation Center
The Brain Innovation Center was inaugurated in a ceremony with the participation of Seyed Mohammad Mahdavi, the Secretary for the Development of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies Department of the Vice Presidency for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy, and Abdolreza Pazouki, the President of Iran University of Medical Sciences in Tehran.
The center has different departments of brain stimulation, brain signal recording, virtual reality, neurocognitive, cognitive assessment and rehabilitation and biofeedback laboratories.
“With the establishment of the brain innovation center, educational, research and therapeutic activities with interdisciplinary approaches will be carried out in a coordinated and coherent environment,” said Mahdavi in the inauguration ceremony of the center.
The president of Iran University of Medical Sciences, for his part, noted that neuroscience is a prioritized scientific and educational activity at the university, announcing his university’s readiness to cooperate more in the development of the Brain Innovation Center.
Pazouki also said that the center will bring useful and effective achievements for the medical community.
Mir Fazeli, the head of the center, for his part, addressed the inauguration ceremony, saying, “This center was created with the support of the Vice Presidency for Science and technology. It will hold short-term interdisciplinary professional skill courses, training workshops, training resident physicians, annual conferences, and will cooperate in completing the brain bank project.
He also said that his center will try to attract and train researchers, attract research support resources, create an inter-university network in the field of health and rehabilitation as some of its goals and plans.
“Innovative applied research, designing virtual reality software for cognitive rehabilitation and developing applied research in the form of new diagnosis and treatment protocols, are other activities of the Brain Innovation Center,” Mir Fazeli further said, according to the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology’s news service’s report.
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