Research and Funding

Division of Neuroscience

The Division of Neuroscience fosters extramural and collaborative research and training to further the understanding of neural and behavioral processes associated with the aging nervous system. An area of special emphasis is brain-behavior relationships. An important component of this Division is the support of basic, clinical, and epidemiological studies of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias of aging. Read more about DN Research Areas »

Latest NIH Alzheimer’s research progress report available
A new online report from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) highlights recent progress in NIH-supported Alzheimer’s disease research.