About MNI

The Michigan Neuroscience Institute (MNI), through its multidisciplinary approaches and collaborations, harnesses expertise across biology, engineering, psychology, and computational sciences to foster interdisciplinary neuroscience research at the University of Michigan. MNI’s integrated and expansive network is comprised of over 170 institute members, working within 6 schools and 30+ departments and institutes, all faculty within the University of Michigan and the U-M Medical School. 

MNI achieves synergy in addressing the most pressing questions in neuroscience at the foundational, translational, and clinical levels to unravel the mysteries of the brain and improve human health.

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For more than 70 years, a groundbreaking institute housed at the University of Michigan has been at the forefront of driving research fundamental to our understanding of the function – and dysfunction – of the human brain. As this field of study, now known as neuroscience (a term first coined at the University of Michigan in the early 1960s) has evolved, so have our institute’s name and our organizational structure.

The Michigan Neuroscience Institute (MNI) is a leader in innovative, collaborative, and visionary research in the areas of brain science and brain impacting diseases. Formerly known as the Mental Health Research Institute (1955-2005) and the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute (2005-2019), MNI’s research encompasses disciplines from affective neuroscience to cognitive neuroscience to developmental neurobiology, signaling, neurogenetics/genomics and neuroinformatics. MNI’s cross-disciplinary research portfolio reflects the full range of basic and translational projects from molecular analyses to animal models to human applications.

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