%0 Journal Article %T Repercusi¨®n del desarrollo de las neurociencias en la soluci¨®n de problemas sociales %A Brown Mart¨ªnez %A Marta %A Vald¨¦s Gonz¨¢lez %A Yamil¨¦ %A Gonz¨¢lez Ortiz %A Edilberto %J Humanidades M£¿£¿dicas %D 2012 %I Centro para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales y Human¨ªsticas en Salud %X the development of scientific knowledge has challenged the metaphysical ideas, prohibitions, and taboos that in most cases have stuck the mankind scientific advance. this advance has always been there to solve men¡¯s increasing problems, such as the development of neurosciences and its application to solve human problems. nowadays, neurosciences have reached such a great level that, new concepts, trends, and contradictions have come out. several aspects about the contribution of neurosciences to the social development, as well as the risks and current limitations that could occur are analyzed in this work. %K neurosciences %K social problems %K disease. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1727-81202012000200009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en