Brain Imaging for the 21st Century:
Brain science is a frontier with extraordinary opportunities for both basic research and potential benefit to humanity. With the recent advances in magnetic resonance imaging technologies, we are now able to explore this science in a way that was not possible in the past. Today’s new technologies, when coupled with the type of interdisciplinary approach that the CBIC has become known for, have already begun to make it possible to decipher complex functions such as human thought and its related physiologic brain activity. Through the directed use of MRI technology we are learning much about neurological order and disorders. Research at the CBIC, and its affiliated academic organizations, holds the promise of becoming the scientific basis from which new therapies for brain-based behavioral and physiological disorders are derived. Through a better understanding of how the brain works, we hope to better illuminate the secrets of human perception and cognition; and as a result develop a previously unattainable level of understanding of complex human activity ( - how we act toward each other - how we shape society - and how we relate to the world around us). It is the challenge to answer these fundamental questions that drives the brain imaging research at the Center.
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