Other Related Centers

The Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center aims to reduce the human and economic costs of Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of knowledge. The Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center was established in 1996 and is one of 30 centers in the US funded by the National Institutes of Health to advance research on Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions. The Center is jointly based at the Boston University Medical Campus and VA Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts. In 2008 the Center began researching Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). With our interest in CTE, we have been able to foster and support high-impact, innovative research on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other long-term consequences of repetitive brain trauma in athletes and military personnel

The Center for Autism Research Excellence (CARE) advances scientific knowledge about the language and social communication impairments in ASD and related disorders. They carry out studies on all ages using behavioral, brain, and cognitive measures.
 
The goal is to understand the range of abilities, the developmental patterns, and the brain systems that may explain why people with autism have difficulties communicating with spoken language. Their research is aimed at developing new interventions that directly address the communication problems that they discover.

Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center conducts high-impact, innovative research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy and other long-term consequences of repetitive brain trauma in athletes and military personnel. The mission of the CTE Center is to conduct state-of-the-art research on CTE, including its neuropathology and pathogenesis, clinical presentation, genetics and other risk factors, biomarkers, methods of detection during life, and methods of prevention and treatment.

In today’s increasingly data-driven, networked world, we have an unprecedented opportunity to monitor, control, and improve our surroundings. By engineering hardware and software systems to acquire, analyze, and act upon information from a range of networked sources, we can advance human intelligence to solve critical problems in fields including health care, communications, energy, and national security.
 
At Boston University’s Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE), 44 affiliated faculty members and more than 100 graduate students from across BU—primarily from the College of Engineering, College of Arts & Sciences, and Questrom School of Business—are taking an interdisciplinary approach to the study and design of such intelligent systems. Collectively, their work promises to improve the quality of our lives considerably.

The Boston University Hearing Research Center (HRC) includes 20 faculty members from six departments in four Boston University schools and colleges. The HRC was formed in 1995 for the development and dissemination of knowledge that will improve the nation’s auditory health and allow the fullest utilization of the sense of hearing.

Boston University School of Medicine’s Memory Research Center (MDRC) was established in 1989 by Dr. Laird Cermak to study a broad spectrum of memory disorders.
 
The MDRC is one of a handful of national research centers dedicated to the study of non-progressive memory loss. Our researchers use behavioral and neuroimaging techniques to examine a wide variety of memory functions. The research includes memory disorders secondary to Korsakoff’s syndrome, anoxia, tumor, aneurysm, stroke, encephalitis, head injury, and alcohol abuse. The multidisciplinary staff includes clinical neuropsychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, psychophysiologists, and neurologists, dedicated to particular content areas. MDRC research has been extensively published in major international journals and presented at highly recognized conferences.

Established in 1978 by the late Dr. Robert G. Feldman, the Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorders Center has established a national reputation in the interdisciplinary management of movement disorder patients including Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease.

An NSF EAGER grant supports a new Initiative for Physics and Mathematics of Neural Systems. This Initiative includes seminars bringing together physicists, engineers, mathematicians and neuroscientists for discussion of current research questions. The principal investigator of the grant is Prof. Michael Hasselmo (hasselmo@bu.edu), and the participants include Prof. H. Eugene Stanley, Prof. Douglas Rosene, Prof. Marc Howard, Prof. Richard H. Myers and Prof. Eric Kolaczyk.