All of these organizations provide rich opportunities for graduate research, including collaborations within and outside of Columbia, and seminars by visiting scientists. The centers and institutes in which our graduate faculty are members include:
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
A new Center for Theoretical Neuroscience has been established at Columbia University in New York City as part of the Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience. The center is expected to support long-term visitors, research staff and faculty, working to bring their varied theoretical approaches together.
Kavli Institute for Brain Science
Directed by Eric Kandel, the Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University will emphasize neural circuitry and will investigate, for example, how various genetic components involved in generating neural plasticity are organized, coordinated and expressed within the complex geometry of a neuron and how the activity of individual nerve cells is linked to the neural circuits that mediate complex behaviors.
Lieber Center for Schizophrenia Research
The Lieber Center strives to answer a wide range of questions about the nature and causes of schizophrenia and its treatment through a multi-faceted research program.
Mahoney-Keck Center for Brain & Behavior
The David Mahoney Center for Brain and Behavior Research will bridge molecular neuroscience with cognitive systems that underlie complex human behavior. Housed on the fifth floor of the New York State Psychiatric Institute's Annex on West 168th Street, the programs will include a postdoctoral training program as well as a professorship in brain and behavior research.
Motor Neuron Center
Columbia’s Motor Neuron Center will transform our understanding of human health. For the first time, brilliant scientific minds are working together in a common approach to currently incurable motor neuron diseases: spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in children and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS; Lou Gehrig’s disease) in adults. New discoveries in the field of motor neuron biology will fuel the search for effective therapy for patients.
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology
The Sackler Institute brings together Columbia scientists from different disciplines whose research interests are in the processes of early development and how these relate to the etiology and treatment of psychiatric illness.
Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimers Disease and the Aging Brain
The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain is the nucleus of a dynamic, multidisciplinary endeavor. The institute brings together Columbia university researchers and clinicians to uncover the causes of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other age-related brain diseases and discover ways to prevent and cure these diseases.
