Some of the more significant neuroscience research centers include: the Center of Cognitive & Social Neuroscience; Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neuroengineering; Brain Research Imaging Center; Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neuroengineering; Center for Peripheral Neuropathy; and the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior.
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Northwestern University offers world-class advanced training in neuroscience via its Interdepartmental Neuroscience (NUIN) PhD program.
NUIN is anchored in the Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM) on NU’s Chicago campus, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (WCAS), the McCormick School of Engineering, and the School of Communication on the Evanston campus, as well as the Children’s Memorial Research Center (CMRC) in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. NUIN is a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative program with numerous and diverse foci of research excellence. Emphasis is based on clinically relevant as well as basic research.
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Feinberg School of Medicine: http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences: http://www.weinberg.northwestern.edu/
McCormick School of Engineering: http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/
School of Communication: communication.northwestern.edu/departments/csd/about
Children’s Memorial Research Center: http://www.childrensmrc.org/sub-specialities-of-pediatrics/
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, founded in 1859, attracts talented individuals to its faculty, staff, and student body through its cutting-edge research initiatives, superb clinical affiliates, global outlook, and innovative curriculum. Located in the heart of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, Feinberg has built a national reputation for excellence through a strong history of collaborative, interdisciplinary medical education and research, and along with ...
Using MRI scanning technology, Center for Imaging Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin are determining the direct effects of sports-related concussions on brain structure and function.The aim of the study is to advance the discovery of more objective biomarkers to assist in diagnosing concussion, determining when an athlete’s brain has fully recovered, and clinical decision making about the athlete’s fitness to return to play after a concussion.
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The Rice Neuroscience Program is a composition of courses, research opportunities, and seminars that seek to provide an education experience that can lead to exciting and rewarding career paths directly in, or related to, neuroscience.
Currently, we have a neuroscience minor program that is an official part of the Rice curriculum, which involves participation in core and elective courses at Rice, Baylor College of Medicine, and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center as well as research in active faculty laboratories throughout the Texas Medical Center. The Neuroscience Program is in a state of growth, with working efforts to build a shared graduate degree in Neuroscience, and next, a neuroscience major at Rice.
Rice Neuroscience Program website: http://neuroscience.rice.edu/ NSF Grant – “Identifying Design Principles of Neural Cells“
Email: neuroscience@rice.edu Address: Rice University, MS-543 Attn: Neuroscience Administrator 6100 Main Street Houston, TX 77005
Neuroscience is the study of the brain and nervous system; how it develops, how it works, and what happens when it doesn’t work properly. Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary field that encompasses most areas of modern science, from genetics and biology, to mathematics and engineering, to social and physical sciences, to medicine. Progress in neuroscience research has ...
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Ohio State Neuroscience is primarily centered in the Department of Neuroscience at the OSU School of Medicine and the Neuroscience Graduate Studies Program (NGP).
OSU Neuroscience research specializes in the following areas: Behavioral Neuroscience; Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience/Imaging; Developmental Neuroscience and Genetics; Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience; Neuro-Oncology; Neuropharmacology; Neurotrauma, Neurological Disorders, and Gene/Clinical Therapies; Stress and Neuroimmunology; and Systems Neuroscience.
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Department of Neuroscience: http://medicine.osu.edu/neuroscience/about-the-department/pages/index.aspx
Neuroscience Graduate Studies Program: https://ngsp.osu.edu/home
Neuroscience Signature (undergraduate) Program: https://neurosciencemajor.osu.edu/
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The Washington University Neuroscience Program offers outstanding neuroscience education for Ph.D. students and exciting research opportunities for Postdoctoral scientists.
The Program includes a broad spectrum of research laboratories that study how the brain works. Neuroscience research has included the nobel-prize winning insights of Rita Levi-Montalcini and Viktor Hamburger on formation and development of the nervous sytem, through development of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging, to current innovations in detection and treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Neuroscience Program website: hneuroscience.wustl.edu/ Office of Neuroscience Research website: neuroscienceresearch.wustl.edu/ BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Fast High-Resolution Deep Photoacoustic Tomography of Action Potentials in Brains”
Email: susan@brainvis.wustl.edu Phone: (314) 362-7043 Address: Washington University in St. Louis One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 6313
How does the brain control movement and produce thoughts, emotions, sensations, memories? How can we help those people for whom diseases have affected their normal cognitive or motor abilities? These questions present the largest and most exciting challenges in modern science. From the earliest work on nerve impulses to the current imaging of human brain activities, the laboratories of Washington University have been at the forefront of training outstanding young neuroscientists.
Today that training is organized into a comprehensive Neuroscience Ph.D. program representing more than 120 faculty ...
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The longest-standing neuroscience graduate program in the United States, we are a collegial and interactive group that performs research across the breadth of the neuroscience field.
The University of Michigan Neuroscience program captures the excitement and interdisciplinary collaboration intrinsic to the field of neuroscience by drawing on the expertise of over 120 faculty members from more than 20 departments.Primary research fields include: Sensory & Computational Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience,Behavioral Neuroscience,Molecular Neuroscience, and Clinical Neuroscience.
Neuroscience Graduate Program website: neuroscience.med.umich.edu/ BRAIN Initiative Grant – ” Modular High-Density Optoelectrodes for Local Circuit Analysis”
Email: neuroscience.program@umich.edu Phone: (734) 763-9638 Address: Neuroscience Graduate Program 4137 Undergraduate Science Building (USB) 204 Washtenaw Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2215
Welcome! The Graduate Program at the University of Michigan was constituted in 1971, making it the longest-standing neuroscience graduate program in the United States. We are a collegial and interactive group of 60+ students and 120 faculty that perform research across the breadth of the neuroscience field. Neuroscience graduate students on this campus form a cohesive group, which promotes interactions among the faculty, making the Graduate Program the nexus of the neuroscience community. Graduates receive a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, which provides tremendous flexibility in choosing one’s career path. There are more than ...
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The University of Minnesta’s Institute for Translational Neuroscience (ITN) grew out of the Presidential Initiative on Brain Function across the Lifespan.The Institute is not a brick and mortar entity but an umbrella organization.
The Institute’s main goal has been to retain and recruit neuroscience researchers who exemplify the institute’s mission to make discoveries through team work.The Institute’s second goal is to foster and encourage collaboration amongst the scholars, researchers and centers.
Website: itn.umn.edu/index.htm Brain Initiative Grant– “Advancing MRI & MRS Technologies for Studying Human Brain Function and Energetics” BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Imaging Brain Function in Real World Environments & Populations with Portable MRI”
Email: oydx004@umn.edu Phone: 612-626-4951 Address: Wallin Medical Biosciences Building Room 3-114 2101 6th Street S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455
Director: Harry T. Orr
The Institute for Translational Neuroscience (ITN) was established in 2007 as a presidential university-wide initiative in order to promote the transfer of discoveries in the basic neurosciences to clinical practice. The institute is charged to enhance basic science discovery with new knowledge leading to subsequent clinical trials and establishment of new therapeutic principles or tools. The institute aims to attract and recruit top scientists to shape discoveries that will lead to tomorrow’s cures. The lTN exemplifies how different disciplines, departments ...
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The U.T. BRAIN initiative funds $20 million in support of a virtual U.T. System Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Research Institute.
The institute’s purpose is to promote trans-disciplinary, multi-institutional research projects focused on neuroscience and neurotechnology challenges that will transform the fields of imaging, neurocomputation, and molecular mapping; the development of neuro-devices; and basic/translational/clinical investigations in intractable neurological diseases.
Website: utsystem.edu/sites/neuroscience/ut-system-neuroscience-institute neUroTransmitter Blog: utsystem.edu/sites/neuroscience/blog
Email: Tom Jacobs tjacobs@utsystem.edu or Andrew Hughes anhughes@utsystem.edu
Advisory Board Neuroscience Council Working Groups
University of Texas System is announcing alignment of more than $20 million in equipment, faculty resources, and seed grants with the goals of the BRAIN Initiative:
In 2013, the University of Texas (UT) System organized a multi-campus Neuroscience Council in response to the BRAIN Initiative. The Council brings together top researchers from UT’s 15 academic and health institutions to explore new convergent research that takes advantage of faculty expertise in disciplines such as engineering, computer science, mathematics, materials science, physics, and chemistry, along with cutting-edge resources such as the 10-petaflop supercomputer at UT Austin. The UT System has also created a Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Research Institute that ...
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The University of Houston neuroscience programs include the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience program in the Department of Psychology and various centers including Center for Neuro-Engineering & Cognitive Science and the Center for Neuromotor, Biomechanics Research (CNBR). and the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: http://www.uh.edu/class/psychology/dev-psych/research/
Center for Neuro-Engineering & Cognitive Science: http://cnecs.egr.uh.edu/
Center for Neuromotor, Biomechanics Research: http://www.hhp.uh.edu/cnbr/about.php
Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab: http://www2.egr.uh.edu/~nbmis/
The Developmental Psychology graduate program in the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston is divided into the following research laboratories:
Behavioral Neuroscience Lab, Director: Leigh Leasure Cognitive Development Lab, Director: Hanako Yoshida Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience, Director: Therese Kosten Laboratory for the Neural Bases of Bilingualism, Director: Arturo Hernandez The Texas Center for Learning Disabilities, Overall Project Principal Investigator: Jack M. Fletcher Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics, Director: David J. Francis; Associate Director: Coleen D. Carlson Visual Cognition Lab, Director: Bruno BreitmeyerThis center is the successor of the Cognitive Science Initiative, and its primary mission is to conduct basic and applied research in neuro-engineering and cognitive science.
Other important objectives include the education of students in a multi-disciplinary ...
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Neuroscience Program (NSP) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an interdisciplinary program of study and research leading to the doctoral degree. Other neuroscience related programs include the Beckman Institute and numerous research centers.
The Beckman Institute’s research is focused around four research themes: Biological Intelligence, Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction, Integrative Imaging, and Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures. Researchers come from psychology, computer science, electrical engineering, physics, chemistry, and bioengineering.
Neuroscience Program (NSP): http://neuroscience.illinois.edu/
Beckman Institute: http://beckman.illinois.edu/
Research Centers and Programs: http://research.illinois.edu/research-illinois/research-centers-and-programs
The Institute’s primary mission is to foster interdisciplinary work of the highest quality, transcending many of the limitations inherent in traditional university organizations and structures. The Institute was founded on the premise that reducing the barriers between traditional scientific and technological disciplines can yield research advances that more conventional approaches cannot.
Researchers from University of Illinois departments as far-ranging as psychology, computer science, electrical engineering, physics, chemistry, and bioengineering ...
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