The Neuroscience Neuroimaging Center (NNC P30 NS45839) is an NIH/NINDS-funded P30 Center Core project which provides support for technical aspects of neuroimaging using MRI, including experimental design, data acquisition, and image analysis, and would interface with several other complementary programs in brain, behavior, and imaging. The NNC allows NINDS investigators and other neuroscientists, both with and without specific funding and expertise in neuroimaging, to easily carry out state-of-the-art experiments based on their hypotheses of interest. This will facilitate the usage of neuroimaging in neuroscience research, and improve the quality and sophistication of neuroimaging experiments. The NNC benefits from an extraordinarily rich neuroimaging Neuroscience research environment at the University of Pennsylvania, and provides support and consolidation of technical skills and expertise in neuroimaging through the following Core modules:

An Administrative Core provides oversight for the NNC, and is guided by a Steering Committee comprised of Core Directors and Principal Investigators of user projects.

An MRI Scanning Core provides technical support and consultation for pulse sequence selection, design, and implementation, and for implementing approaches for ancillary methods such as physiological monitoring and gating, neuropsychological task design, and behavioral response monitoring.

A Morphology and Statistics Core provides consultation and customization for experimental design and data analysis approaches, including brain segmentation and region of interest analysis, normalization, statistical modeling, and power analysis and thresholding.

A Data Analysis Facility maintains state-of-the-art data processing facilities with distributed computing, storage and back-up, and seamless integration of several data analysis software environments and will implement customized analysis methods developed by the Morphology and Statistics Core.