Page 8 - Establishing the Institute for Brain and Neural Sciences

The Institute for Brain and Neural Sciences will comprise 10 centers of research and innovation:
•1Center for Research on the Development of Neural Networks
How does the brain, with its extreme diversity of cells, wire to form complex networks? What happens when the process goes awry?
•2Center for Research on Perception
and Action
How do we sense—inside and out—and how does the brain combine input from di erent sensory modalities to form
a coherent picture?
•3Center for Research on Mental and Emotional Health
What prompts mental illness, what promotes resilience, and how can we counter processes that derail mental and emotional health?
•4Center for Research on Positive Neuroscience
How can we apply the tools of neuroscience to understand well-being, intelligence, and other positive psychological concepts that help improve our ability to cope with and enrich our lives?
•5Center for Research on Learning, Memory, and Cognition
How do we learn new tasks and store memories? To what extent do cognitive abilities like learning and memory de ne who we are?
What is consciousness?
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