The Staglin One Mind Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at UCLA will bring together faculty across many disciplines to investigate how the brain supports the mind. When the center officially opens its doors in July, psychologists, biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and engineers will collaborate here in the quest for better therapies for brain disorders.
Director Dr. Ty Cannon says, “We want to develop preventive and therapeutic approaches to reduce human suffering. We need to cut across the traditional boundaries to achieve that. This center will allow faculty to come together, think about problems together, design studies together, and pursue funding together in a way that they otherwise would not.”
“We are trying to understand how the brain goes awry in people who have mental disorders,” Cannon says. “We are trying to understand how the structure of the brain relates to the mind in healthy people and all of the ways those processes can go awry. Our new center is aimed right at that intersection. By understanding those connections, we hope to develop therapeutic approaches that can help people.”