The Duke-Unc Brain Imaging and Analysis Center

The Duke-UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center

The Duke-UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center is an organization that investigates many topics in cognitive and clinical neuroscience. The organization studies parts of the brain such as the part that is responsible for visual perception. It also focuses of how information is held in memory, how we as people make predictions about future events, etc. The center of itself brings people together such as scientist from Duke University and University of the North Carolina at Chapel Hill to find interdisciplinary solutions to fundamental research questions about the human brain. With various classes such as Psychology 170 (The Developing Mind and Brain: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience) and other classes in Psychology and Neurobiology.

According to the website there are two main reasons for this organization. "The first is to improve research techniques in neuroimaging, through improvements in MR pulse sequence design, applications to high-field MRI, experimental control, and understanding of brain hemodynamics. Second, BIAC researchers investigate the functional properties of the human brain by incorporating these state-of-the-art research techniques into studies of cognitive processing (http://www.biac.duke.edu/research/)." They are several principle laborites that research is conducted in; there is also a two main computer labs that research is conducted in.

A variety of papers written by scientist and students of the institute are a range of things that also occupy the site. The research being done here is very interesting and it seems that it could one day help in understanding more about the brain.