Director's Messages

This week, more than thirty thousand neuroscientists are coming to Washington, DC for the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN).

If you know anyone with dementia, you probably understand how devastating it is to those affected and their families.

By: Walter Koroshetz, NINDS Director, and Diana Bianchi, NICHD Director

September is Pain Awareness Month. We all experience pain from time to time, but for many Americans pain is a chronic and difficult-to-treat condition.

I was fortunate to have exceptional scientists as mentors who devoted many, many hours guiding me to think more scientifically. Two pieces of their sage advice continue to resonate with me today.

By Dr. Diana Bianchi (NICHD Director), Dr. Joshua Gordon (NIMH Director), and Dr. Walter Koroshetz (NINDS Director)

By: Dr. Walter Koroshetz

In 2012, after more than a decade of active efforts to identify effective approaches to support replication of critical pre-clinical studies, NINDS recognized that neuroscience could benefit from an initiative to improve the quality and rigor of the research that we fund.

By: Dr. Walter Koroshetz and Dr. Francis Collins

By: Walter Koroshetz, NINDS Director, and Diana Bianchi, NICHD Director