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Numerous advancements, discoveries, and innovations in the field of neuroscience are generating massive data at a rapid pace. This is driven majorly by neuroscientists. On the other hand, the onus of translation of this data into meaningful applications falls upon the clinicians, while they provide apt feedback to researchers. This cycle has to run in a synchronous fashion. The disparity between basic neuroscience and clinical neuroscience has been prevalent, and regrettably, this gap seems to have widened over the years, creating a marked polarity in the two fields. The incoherence between basic neuroscience and clinical neuroscience is one of the major contributing factors to the lack of translational neuroscience research in India. This phenomenon is progressive, as with ascending the professional ladder, the courses get more niche-specific, eventually making incentivization and fellowships for translational neuroscience inadequate. In India, the charade of disinclination to collaborate plagues even the highest levels of academia, including the policymakers [1]. Thus, the ideal target for the formative changes would be the fundamental levelthe undergraduates, where simple interventions would result in profound changes.