National Brain Research Centre

NBRC was established on 14 November 1997.[2] It was dedicated to the Nation on 16 December 2003 by the then President of India Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.[3]

The centre is dedicated to provide infrastructural facilities and a coordinated multidisciplinary team to work at the frontiers of neuroscience research and network the existing groups and whenever required, create satellite units to catalyse the overall growth of this discipline in the country. Till date, these are the Director or Director-In charge

Prof. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath 
Prof. Prasun K Roy
Prof. Subrata Sinha
Prof. Neeraj Jain 

Prof. Pravat K Mandal (current)

Research carried out at NBRC encompasses breadth of neuroscience from Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience to Computational Neuroscience and Brain Imaging. List of scientific facilities available at NBRC includes DNA Sequencing, DNA Microarray, Whole-cell Intracellular and Extracellular Physiological Recording, state-of-the-art (3T Philips scanner) Magnetic Resonance Imaging, MR Spectroscopy (MRS) and functional MRI (3T).[4] NBRC ranks first in India in number of publications in Basic Neuroscience during 2006–10.[5] The Indian Brain Template, Brahma is developed and it is published in the Magnetic Resonance imaging journal. It is now also shown that Brain Glutathione (closed form) is the diagnostic Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease and published in Biological Psychiatry journal. BIG data analytics "BHARAT" is in operation for Early Diagnostic Biomarker for Alzheimer's disease from Multi-modal data. State-of-the-art Brain Signal Processing package "KALPANA" is now developed and available to use for academic research.

Besides research, the centre provides a national level nucleus for comprehensive training and teaching in diverse fields of neurosciences.[2] As a Deemed University, the centre offers post-graduate degree courses in neuroscience. Currently, it offers MSc/an Integrated PhD (MSc + PhD)/PhD program in neuroscience. These programs aim to develop a solid foundation in the basic areas of neuroscience in an inter-disciplinary manner and to expose the students to the latest research techniques in different areas.[2] It has an MoU with IIT Delhi for running joint PhD programs.

Internationally, NBRC has collaborations with RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), United States, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Pavlov Institute, Russia,[6] and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), France.[7] In the year 2006, Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University (MNI), Canada and NBRC were declared sister institutes.[8]

• Anirban Basu[9]

#  Pravat Mandal[10]