The Mind Research Network
The Mind Research Network (MRN) was founded in 1998 as a result of the vision of United States Senator Pete Domenici to establish a leading brain research facility to be based in New Mexico. MRN’s initial plan called for the research and development of state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging and magnetoencephalogram neuroimaging systems in the studies of mental illness and brain disorders. This important task was carried out by MRN and its collaborators at Harvard University, MIT, the University of Minnesota, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of New Mexico.
While still referred to as the MIND (Mental Illness and Neuroscience Discovery) Institute, the organization moved to their current location in the Pete & Nancy Domenici Hall on the University of New Mexico campus in 2004. Their name change to MRN was completed in the fall of 2007.
Headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, MRN consists of an interdisciplinary association of scientists located at universities, national laboratories and research centers around the world and is focused on imaging technology and its emergence as an integral element of neuroscience investigation.
MRN is 501(c)3 non-profit funded through major grants from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, private foundations, collaborative partners and individual donors.
Read more about The Mind Research Network: Mission Statement, Research
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