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Neuroscience

Expanding the frontiers of knowledge, from molecular and cellular neuroscience to organismal cognition and behavior and advance the understanding of the human mind.

Investments in this area draw upon a broad array of Yale’s strengths and facilitate new fundamental insights into the function of the mind, the development of the brain, and the causes and cures of neural disease. 

This work takes place in many departments, programs, and schools across the university and, by fostering diverse faculty expertise and research foci, expands the frontiers of knowledge, from molecular and cellular neuroscience to organismal cognition and behavior.

Highlighting Progress

Wu Tsai Institute

An ambitious interdisciplinary research endeavor, the institute aims to accelerate breakthroughs in understanding cognition by bringing together psychological, biological, and computational sciences.

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100 College Street

This new space bridges the university’s medical and central campuses and brings together members of both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Yale School of Medicine to explore the frontiers of the mind.

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Faculty expansion

New faculty affiliated with the Wu Tsai Institute and neuroscience build on Yale’s expertise in these fields.

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Stephen and Denise Adams Center for Parkinson’s Disease Research

This new center at Yale New Haven Hospital, part of a new patient-care and research facility currently under construction, will enable Yale faculty members to bring cutting-edge treatments to patients and to make discoveries from the bedside on neurologic disease and the biological underpinnings of Parkinson’s disease.

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Center for Brain and Mind Health (CBMH)

This new center promotes multidisciplinary research on conditions that affect the mind and brain, focusing on areas of clinical and translational neuroscience that are broader than any single disease.

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