Neuroscience remains one of the most rapidly-expanding disciplines in Biology and Medicine. It continues to absorb technological advances from other fields of science that are by no means limited to the traditional areas of biology. Neuroscientists today use techniques ranging from molecular genetics of simple multicellular organisms to imaging the living human brain. Investigating the nervous system offers opportunities for interdisciplinary research of a kind that, until recently, could not have been contemplated. Neuroscience has made many discoveries of fundamental importance to our understanding of the basis of normal brain function and its breakdown in neurological and neuropsychiatric disease. Continuing discoveries offer the promise of developing strategies for therapeutic intervention in many disabling human diseases such as schizophrenia and stroke that are associated with enormous social and economic costs. 

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Recognizing the importance of research in Neuroscience and its great promise, as well as the importance of educating the neuroscientists of the future, the University of California, Davis, in 1990, established The Center for Neuroscience. The Center has now become the focus of interdisciplinary studies in Cellular, Molecular, Systems, Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience, with a Faculty made up of world leaders in brain research. The Center occupies facilities especially designed to promote and foster interactions among the resident faculty, associated faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students, with state-of-the-art lab space and associated facilities such as cellular and molecular imaging, functional imaging of the human brain and extensive databasing facilities. The Center provides an attractive setting for seminar series that feature distinguished National and International guest speakers as well as speakers from the UC Davis community of scientists. The Center is home to a number of visiting scholars each year and enjoys a lively intellectual atmosphere.

The Center today has 25 in-house Faculty and an additional 41 associated Faculty drawn from the University at large and from the UC Davis Medical Center. The Center has an outstanding record that makes UC Davis one of the leading Neuroscience centers in North America.

Interim Director, Cameron Carter MD

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