title: [Telescience : Feasibility studies, definition and a fair answer to the scientific brain drain].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  What is telescience? Is it feasible to transfer academic information with the help of telematics to educate and teach young scientists over large distances? The term telescience has so far not been defined but covers a variety of possibilities, which could be successfully implemented worldwide. This article gives examples and highlights the feasibility analysis of telescience.
  
  
  METHODS
  We have carried out feasibility analyses for neurological functional diagnostics, an epidemiological cross-sectional study as well as a laboratory study for detection of thrombocyte function during dengue fever with the help of telemedicine. The basis for all these projects was a telemedical transcontinental cooperation over a distance of 12,000 km.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All performed studies demonstrated the feasibility. With the help of telematics the laboratory techniques, planning, conduction and interpretation of results as well as publication skills can be transferred.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Telescience is feasible. Our studies showed that telescience is a very promising option to transfer knowledge, which will help to enable professional expertise to be transferred directly to the region/country without a brain drain. All too often young motivated scientists are enticed to move to well-known institutions, which involves the danger of a brain drain. Brain drain can be avoided in favor of local implementation of scientific projects. Our results illustrate that it is feasible to educate and guide scientists with the help of telematics infrastructures.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Neurologie, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Steinbacher Hohl 2-26, 60488, Frankfurt/Main, Deutschland. craemer.eva.maria@khnw.de.|Brunei Neuroscience Stroke and Rehabilitation Centre, Jerudong, Brunei. craemer.eva.maria@khnw.de.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Craemer
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Neurologie, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Steinbacher Hohl 2-26, 60488, Frankfurt/Main, Deutschland.|Brunei Neuroscience Stroke and Rehabilitation Centre, Jerudong, Brunei.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bassa
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Neurologie, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Steinbacher Hohl 2-26, 60488, Frankfurt/Main, Deutschland.|Brunei Neuroscience Stroke and Rehabilitation Centre, Jerudong, Brunei.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jacobi
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Biometrie und Epidemiologie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Deutschland.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Becher
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Neurologie, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Steinbacher Hohl 2-26, 60488, Frankfurt/Main, Deutschland.|Brunei Neuroscience Stroke and Rehabilitation Centre, Jerudong, Brunei.|Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Negara, Brunei.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Meyding-Lamadé
mesh_terms: D002010:Brunei; D003943:Diagnostic Techniques, Neurological; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005858:Germany; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009462:Neurology / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012586:Science / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: Diagnostics; Education; Encephalography; Neurology; Telemedicine