The Department of Neuroscience in the College of Medicine is comprised of 23 faculty and their associated lab groups. It employs about 120 individuals dedicated to discovering how the brain works both in healthy and diseased conditions and educating the next generation of research scientists and physicians. The department has particular strengths in the research areas related to neurodevelopmental disorders, substance use disorders, in vivo brain imaging, and neurodegeneration, including Alzheimer’s Disease.
The department supports neuroscience-focused graduating training through the Biomedical Sciences degree programs in the College of Graduate Studies, including the Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences with neuroscience as an area of study and the Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience, as well as graduate training in the Medical Scientist Training program (M.D./Ph.D.). The department currently houses two NIH T32 pre- and postdoctoral training grants (NIDA and NIAAA), an NIH P50 Center (Charleston Alcohol Research Center), a NIGMS P20 COBRE (COBRE on Neurodevelopment and Its Disorders), and it manages the Center for Biomedical Imaging, an advanced imaging facility for human and animal research.
