中国神经科学十年进程

Progress of Neuroscience in China From 2000 to 2009

为了迎接21世纪的挑战,推动我国神经科学基础研究的快速发展,中国科学院于1999年底在上海成立了中国科学院神经科学研究所（下简称上海神经所）.经过十余年的发展,上海神经所取得了突出的成就,跻身国际水平研究所行列,为我国神经科学发展做出了重要贡献。

Neuroscience research in China has stepped into the development of ＂golden period＂ in 21st century.As Prof.Poo pointed out,＂Improving funding for research on neuroscience,a larger number of returning researchers with professional training abroad,a variety of international academic exchange＂,all of these created conducive environment for scientific research,promoted the development of neuroscience in China.12 interesting reviews were published in the 2010 edition No.3 of Science in China Series C-life Sciences（SCLS）,which summarized the progress from 2000 to 2009 and perspectives in four different directions of neuroscience research in China： developmental neuroscience,cellular and molecular neuroscience,mechanisms of neural disorders,and systems and computational neuroscience.