Philip Baxter*
Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Received: 05-Mar-2024, Manuscript No. neuroscience-24-132641; Editor assigned: 07-Mar-2024, Pre QC No. neuroscience-24-132641(PQ); Reviewed: 21-Mar-2024, QC No. neuroscience-24-132641; Revised: 28-Mar-2024, Manuscript No. neuroscience-24-132641(R); Published: 04-Apr-2024, DOI: 10.4172/neuroscience.8.1.009
Citation: Baxter P. Advancing Neurological Care: The Importance of Clinical Studies in Neuroscience. RRJNeuroscience.2024;8:009.
Copyright: © 2024 Baxter P. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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