Neurosciences in university sains malaysia; the way to go forward in malaysia with vision 2020.

The growth of neurosciences in Malaysia is unlike other Asian countries like Singapore, South Korea, China and Japan (1) where a rate of 6 to 20% is expected per annum. A survey of Googles [www.google.com] indicated that there were only 621, 000 hits concerning scientific neuroscience publications from Malaysia of which 161 were from Universiti Sains Malaysia. Hits on publications on neurology were 345,000 and 115,000 for neurosurgery respectively when these two key words were associated with Malaysia. This is only 20% of what is published by Australia a developed country with a population nearly similar to Malaysia.