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Neuroscience Researchers Are Developing Innovative Therapies To Treat Brain Diseases

UCLA is committed to a three-pronged approach to meet these demands:

Devoting ourselves to healing humankind through outstanding patient care
Fostering a cross-campus initiative for our neuroscience research community
Creating a unique environment dedicated to training great minds

Fund the cures of the future.

Patient Care

UCLA Physicians are devoted to alleviating the pain and suffering of neurological and psychiatric disease by providing cutting edge treatments. They strive to create opportunities to engage with and improve the health of our neighbors.

Patient Care

Research

Neuroscience Research is dedicated to understanding the mysteries of how the brain develops and works, what goes wrong in brain diseases, and developing effective new therapies to treat diseases from brain tumors, depression and Alzheimer’s disease.

Research

Education

UCLA Faculty, both physicians and researchers, are passionate about training the next generation of neuroscientists including undergraduate, graduate and medical students, as well as residents, postdoctoral and clinical fellows.

Education

A Complex Mystery

With perhaps tens of thousands of different types of brain cells, nearly 100 billion of them, and a 100 trillion connections between them, the human brain remains an extraordinary mystery. Remarkable progress in molecular biology, genetics, imaging technologies, and data analysis provides the neuroscience research team with exceptional tools to dig deeply into understanding how our brains work and what goes wrong when our brains do not function properly.

Understand, Then Cure.

Let’s dedicate ourselves to the type of fiercely open-minded scholarly inquiry that promises to uncover the causes of human disease.

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