Neuroscience

Neuroscience research at USC currently generates more than $8 million in federal and non-federal grants. More than 40 faculty are involved in neuroscience-based research across USC departments including psychology, exercise science, communications science, nursing, pharmacy, physiology, pharmacology and neuroscience, and neuropsychiatry. Collaborating institutions such as the VA (neuropsychology, neurology) and Palmetto Health Richland (neurology) also add strength to the neuroscience research effort.

Clinical Neuroscience is an important growth area with stroke and neurogenetics specifically identified as its two most rapidly growing fields. A current clinical neuroscience project—the Brain Imaging Center of Excellence—involves a team dedicated to advancing MRI scanning technologies and marrying them to non-invasive treatment options that can probe the structure and function of the brain and ultimately treat and repair many neurodegenerative disorders afflicting South Carolinians. This brain-imaging consortium, a collaborative effort with MUSC, is funded in part through the state’s Endowed Chairs program.