Centers of Excellence

The Friedman Brain Institute is an interdisciplinary hub that is composed of 10 Centers of Excellence. Its goal is to define the mechanisms underlying brain and spinal cord disorders and to translate those findings into preventive or restorative interventions.

The Institute is focused on three major areas of investigation where Mount Sinai can be truly transformative:

• Neural Injury & Repair
• Cognitive Function
• Neuropsychiatry

The Institute will be judged by its success in advancing brain repair, developing new ways to advance cognition, and improving the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders. For more than a century, Mount Sinai has been a leader in brain research and treatment. The work of the Friedman Brain Institute will build on this strong tradition by translating research advances into fundamentally new and improved treatments.

The Friedman Brain Institute comprises of 10 Centers of Excellence (Chiefs are listed in parentheses):

• Brain Aging (Patrick R. Hof, MD)
• Brain Imaging (To be Named)
• Cognition & Neural Plasticity (Matthew Shapiro, PhD)
• Computational & Systems Neuroscience (Ehud Kaplan, PhD)
• Mood, Motivation & Addiction (Yasmin Hurd, PhD)
• Myelin Disorders: Mechanisms & Repair (Patrizia Casaccia, MD, PhD)
• Neural Injury & Repair (To be Named)
• Neurodegeneration (Sam Gandy, MD, PhD)
• Neurodevelopmental Disorders (Joseph Buxbaum, MSc, PhD)
• Novel Approaches to Neurodiagnostics & Neurotherapeutics (Giulio Maria Pasinetti, MD, PhD)