How Research Benefits Human Health

  1. Fundamental discoveries promote healthy living and treatment of disease.
    1. Experiments on animals play a central role in providing insights about the human brain and in helping to make healthy lifestyle choices, prevent disease, and find cures for disorders.
    2. Research on humans is an essential final step before new treatments are introduced to prevent or cure disorders.
    3. Neuroscience research has formed the basis for significant progress in treating a large number of disorders.
    4. Finding cures for disorders of the nervous system is a social imperative.

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