The McKnight Brain Institute’s signature programs in age-related cognitive decline, developmental disorders, sensory dysfunction, pain, and neuropsychiatric diseases including substance use disorders. The MBI is dedicated to accelerating discoveries to enhance brain health and develop innovative therapies.
Center for Addiction Research & Education (CARE)
CARE facilitates collaborative addiction research across programs to define more effective prevention, intervention, and recovery programs.
Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment (CAN)
CAN provides centralized transdisciplinary diagnostic and clinical treatment services for children and adults with neurodevelopmental disorders and accelerates research efforts.
Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory Clinical Translational Research (CAM Center)
The CAM Center is devoted to improving the quality of life for seniors by alleviating cognitive changes due to the normal aging process that affect the vast majority of people and differ from dementia and other diseases affecting the brain.
Learn more about the CAM Center.
Center for OCD, Anxiety & Related Disorders (COARD)
COARD brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and clinicians who conduct clinical and translational research in obsessive compulsive and anxiety disorders.
Center for Smell and Taste (CST)
The CST coordinates and promotes basic and applied research and education in the chemical senses across traditional academic boundaries, creating a unique opportunity to advance discovery, application, and education.
Pain Research and Intervention Center of Excellence (PRICE)
PRICE serves as home to scientists, clinicians, and trainees dedicated to improving the understanding and treatment of pain, and includes more than 30 extramurally-funded investigators pursuing a broad range of studies.
Recent News
Decades later, brain training lowers dementia risk
Dr. Michael Marsiske and colleagues discovered that older adults who received brain training 20+ years ago to evaluate effects on thinking and memory…
MBI Researcher Highlight: Dr. Jeff Jones
Dr. Jeffrey Jones’ research aims to illuminate age-related metabolic changes in neurons in normal cognitive aging and dementia that result in changes…
MBI Accelerator Program awards nearly $1M across…
MBI awards provide seed funding to bolster emerging research in neuroscience and neuromedicine across the University of Florida.
