The Brain Institute provides a unifying structure and collaborative framework for the many diverse research units that make up the neuroscience community at Pitt. This vast community spans every school within the University. Departments as diverse as anesthesiology, bioengineering, behavioral and community health sciences and disorders, computer science, developmental biology, history and philosophy of medicine, and mathematics all have neuroscientists on their faculties. This reflects the central importance of understanding the brain, how it develops, how it functions normally, and how to protect it from damage and cure it from abnormal function. The task requires a broad, multi-level, and multi-disciplinary approach. In other words, it takes a university.
Listed here are many of the neuroscience centers, institutes, programs, and departments affiliated with the Brain Institute.
Centers, Programs, and Institutes
- Advanced Centers for Interventions & Services - Research for Early and Late Life Mood Disorders
- Aging Institute
- Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
- Brain and Spine Injury Center
- Brain Stimulation and Epilepsy Center
- Brain Trauma Research Center
- Center for Adolescent Reward, Rhythms, and Sleep
- Center for Biologic Imaging
- Center for Clinical Neurophysiology
- Center for Image-Guided Neurosurgery
- Center for Military Medicine Research
- Center for Neuroanatomy with Neurotropic Viruses
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
- Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh
- Center for Pain Management
- Center for Protein Conformational Diseases
- Center for Translational Mental Health Research
- Charles T. Campbell Eye Microbiology Laboratory
- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders
- Cranial Nerve Disorder Program
- Learning Research and Development Center
- LiveLikeLou Center for ALS Research
- Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration
- Minimally Invasive Endoneurosurgery Center
- Neurosurgical Oncology Center
- Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Research Center
- Pediatric Neurotrauma Center
- Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research
- Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease
- Pittsburgh Project to End Opioid Abuse
- Surgical Epilepsy Center
- Systems Neuroscience Institute
- Translational Neuroscience Program
- University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute
- UPMC Eye Center
- UPMC Sports Medicine Concussion Program
- UPMC Stroke Institute
Schools, Departments and Divisions
School of Medicine
- Anesthesiology
- Biomedical Informatics
- Cell Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Computer Science
- Developmental Biology
- Medicine
- Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
- Neurobiology
- Neurological Surgery
- Neurology
- Neuropathology
- Neuroscience
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Otolaryngology
- Pathology
- Pediatrics
- Pharmacology and Chemical Biology
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Plastic Surgery
- Psychiatry
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
- Biological Sciences
- Computer Science
- History and Philosophy of Science
- Intelligent Systems
- Mathematics
- Neuroscience
- Psychology
- Statistics
Swanson School of Engineering
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
School of Computing and Information
School of Nursing
School of Pharmacy
School of Public Health