The Baylor Neuroimaging Center

The Baylor Neuroimaging Center (BNC) is a research-dedicated, state-of-the-art neuroimaging center with five 3-tesla Siemens MRI scanners and excellent infrastructure and facilities.  The BNC is part of the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, located in the heart of the Texas Medical Center in Houston.  

Research projects cover a wide variety of fields, including neuroscience, psychology, sensory integration, political science and economics. Particular areas of interest are hyperscanning (a means of exploring the brain activity that underlies human social interactions), social neuroscience, neural circuitry of valuation and decision-making, and disruptions of such processes associated with developmental and psychiatric illness.

In addition, the Baylor Neuroimaging Center serves as the primary imaging facility of the Computational Psychiatry Unit (CPU). This is an interdisciplinary group of independent investigators affiliated with the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry that is focused on neural computations underlying psychiatric and developmental disorders.

The BNC was established through a generous gift from The Brown Foundation, Inc.