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THE PURPOSE:
NEUROSCIENCE
THE TIME:
NOW
THE PLACE:
THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF
SCIENCE
Humans are amazing creatures, conscious and conscientious, capable of logic and intuition, moving with grace, but whose fesh is heir to innumerable forms of dysfunction. We have only just begun to appreciate how truly magnifcent and complex the human brain is, and how challenging its repair in states of disease and dysfunction.
Neuropsychiatric disorders, neurodegenerative diseases,
and brain injury are growing and urgent public health challenges. But now, after two decades of rapid progress in technology and research, scientists fnally have the tools and perspective to examine the human brain in greater-than- ever detail, using brain stimulation, sophisticated microscopy techniques, the most powerful human brain imaging capabilities in the country, state-of-the art optogenetics, genetic engineering and sequencing techniques, and more. We are at a tipping point of discovery.
For over 70 years, research in the life sciences and in the exact sciences have been the main pillars of endeavor at the Weizmann Institute.
The Institute’s interactive, collaborative spirit pervades its labs which are home to an international coterie of leading minds in a range of felds that collecively inform brain science.
Our neuroscience community is broader and more diverse in method and focus than any other group of neuroscientists in the world. Our breadth and depth position us ideally for a successful future of breakthroughs and discoveries.
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