The McKnight Brain Institute’s signature programs in cognition, behavior, and sensation include age-related cognitive decline, developmental disorders, pain, sensory dysfunction, and substance use disorders and other neuropsychiatric diseases. 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
New data biorepository may help move the needle…
With $10 million NIH grant, Drs. Kyle Allen and Yenisel Cruz-Almeida seek to explore pain pathways and create custom treatments.
MBI member appointed to Scientific Reports…
Dr. Shixie Jiang joins editorial board for Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Journal’s publishing group.
Older age shown as major risk factor in falling…
Easy-to-administer lab test offers strong indicator of who is most susceptible, new study shows.
