BCNIBehavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Institute
A Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Strategy/Platform across Disciplines and Institutions: to better understand and treat the Human Brain in Health and Disease
Our Mission
Interactive & Multidisciplinary Interface
Integrating resources (experts, centers, institutes) across disciplines & institutions
Facilitate, expand and initiate:
- Brain Imaging Infrastructure (EEG, MEG, MRI, fMRI, PET)
- Behavioral Research Infrastructure (behavioral, clinical assessments)
- Technology Development (centralized, user-friendly data analysis strategies)
- Translational Applications (basic, clinical research)
- Training Platform (HQP: scientists, postdocs, students, staff)
- Knowledge Development (human brain: health and disease)
- Development: Neuro-Diagnostic Markers (cognʼdisability, neurology, psychiatry)
- Interventional Strategies (cognitive, pharmacological, surgical)
- Monitoring Strategies (behavior, brain imaging > pre/post)
- Industrial Commercialization
BCNI's Goals
BCNIʼs Overall Strategy
Helping the research community:
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To network and connect among neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, engineers, computing scientists, clinicians, neurologists, psychiatrists … interested in brain imaging + behavior,
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To translate ideas into brain imaging projects and facilitate access to multidisciplinary brain imaging sites fully functionally available at various institutions across BC.
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To facilitate and optimize multidisciplinary brain imaging signal processing resources development towards more user-friendly and semi-automatic data analysis procedures and make it available with guidance and training to the research community.
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To facilitate and expand overall cognitive and clinical neuroscience brain imaging research across disciplines and institutions,
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To engage research teams and collaborative networks in order to better understand the developing human brain and behavior in health and disease.
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Towards translation, intervention and engagement in public community > neuro-diagnostic markers > interventional strategies
- The BCNI institute fosters interdisciplinary and collaborative engagement across disciplines and institutions in brain imaging infrastructure, technology-development, research, translational applications, interventions and training in brain imaging concerning the relationship between mind and brain. Building on the strengths of world-renowned researchers who investigate a variety of behavioral, sensory-motor, cognitive, and neurophysiological phenomena, the BCNI focuses on a broad range of topics related to the neurobiological mechanisms underlying attention, perception, sensory integration, language, memory and action in health and disease.
- The major emphases is on using structural and functional brain imaging and behavioral/clinical assessments, for better understanding the underlying “Human Cognitive Brain Network in Health and Disease”, the brain’s network connectivity and dynamics among local and large-scale networks relating to cognitive human brain functions, and its alterations in cognitive disabilities, neurological and psychiatric symptoms.
- The goal is to develop objective “quantitative diagnostic markers and strategies” translating into better pedagogical applications and more specific cognitive, pharmacological and neurosurgical interventional therapies.
- The institute engages to further provide a matrix to facilitate scientists working synergistically across centers and institutes toward these and related goals across disciplines and institutions.
September 2018