The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN)
Website : http://www.cbn-atl.org/
CBN is an NSF-funded program consisting of interdisciplinary, multi-institutional programs integrating research, education and knowledge transfer. More than 90 neuroscientists lead the programs, along with a cadre of some 50 graduate students and 20 postdoctoral researchers. CBN's mission includes:
- Research on the neurobiology of social behavior, and the effects of the environment and social experiences on the nervous system;
- An education program designed to recruit and retain women and under-represented minorities to neuroscience education programs;
- Knowledge transfer to improve science literacy among the public, and to commercialize CBN discoveries.
The Center for Neurodegenerative Disease (CND)
Website : http://www.neurology.emory.edu/CND
CND is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental center that fosters and integrates studies on the mechanisms of neurodegeneration, neuroprotection and brain repair. It has successfully built on existing strengths in the basic and clinical neurosciences, with the ultimate goal of creating a well-funded, internationally recognized center of excellence to serve as a focal point for research, teaching, and experimental therapeutics. The CND provides an optimal environment for translational research bringing together in one place faculty with diverse basic and clinical expertise. This enhances the interactions between basic scientists and clinician-scientists that are essential for understanding disease mechanisms and for developing new therapies.
The Emory Alzheimer's Disease Center (ADC)
Website : http://www.emory.edu/WHSC/MED/ADC/index.html
ADC is one of 29 Alzheimer's disease core research centers established at major medical centers and funded by the National Institute on Aging at the NIH. The ADC provides core resources that serve as the foundation for the development of expanded multidisciplinary research activities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. These research themes are also synergistic with the unique contributions of Emory investigators in the field of mitochondrial genetics examining mitochondrial abnormalities in neurodegenerative and other disorders.
The Silvio O. Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders
Supported by the NIH comprises research programs that aim at reaching the following objectives: (1) evaluate genetic and environmentally based animal models of major depressive disorder and PTSD, (2) determine involvement of specific neural circuits altered in depression-like syndrome, (3) assess neurogenesis and apoptosis in these animal models, (4) perform human clinical studies of CNS structure and function in children of depressives and in adults.
