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The First of Its Kind
More than 1 billion people worldwide – 300 million of them children
– suffer from mental or brain disorders.
Today, there is no single institution using multidisciplinary
research to guide the study of pediatric cognitive development and
neurological disorders. Tomorrow, there will be.
Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas
Children’s
will be a new model of excellence: the first dedicated facility to
use a multidisciplinary research approach to understand the unique
issues of a child’s brain structure, development patterns and
related diseases.
Building upon on-going work at Texas Children’s—already at the
forefront of identifying genes that cause neurological disorders—the
Neurological Research Institute will bring new insight to the search
for the causes of pediatric disorders such as autism and Rett
syndrome and adult disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
diseases.
Scheduled to open in 2010, the Neurological Research Institute will
be the crossroads where more than 170 researchers (over 15 principal
investigators and their teams) across disciplines collaborate to
bring promising new treatments to those afflicted with neurological
diseases.
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For
medical inquiries: contact
Blue Bird Clinic
for Pediatric Neurology at 832-822-5046
To learn more
about donating:
contact
the Office of Development
at
832-824-2719
Make an immediate gift.
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"We are really marching the troops
toward major advances in understanding the neurological psychiatric
disorders that are the most devastating diseases of humankind. Jan
and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute is an example of how to
optimally mobilize the science of mind to address these disorders."
Dr. Eric
Kandel
Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine
Director of the Kavli Institute
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