McKnight Brain Institute
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The McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Florida
is a research and teaching center, which conducts integrated Research in neuroscience
, neurology
, psychiatry
, cognitive science
, and related areas.
The Institute was founded in 1998 by Dr. William Luttge, and was also a project of the U.S. Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs. In 2004 Dr. Dennis A. Steindler was chosen to be the director of the Institute. Overall, the facilities were constructed from donations by Evelyn and William McKnight.
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
is a research and teaching center, which conducts integrated Research in neuroscience
Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics,...
, neurology
Neurology
Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Specifically, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effector tissue,...
, psychiatry
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
, cognitive science
Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...
, and related areas.
The Institute was founded in 1998 by Dr. William Luttge, and was also a project of the U.S. Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs. In 2004 Dr. Dennis A. Steindler was chosen to be the director of the Institute. Overall, the facilities were constructed from donations by Evelyn and William McKnight.