Our mission is to establish a financially sustainable research center that stands at the forefront of mental health research by leveraging advanced interdisciplinary neuroscience and neural engineering technologies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound imaging, electrophysiology, optogenetics, and chemogenetics at Penn State University. The center also aims to facilitate the translation from preclinical research to clinical research in mental health.
Center for Neurotechnology in Mental Health Research
Driving mental health research with neural technology
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When dreams turn dark: Neuroscientists to study nightmares and mental health
Dreams, and likely nightmares, are experienced universally across humans and animals, but neuroscientists still do not know why. Now, with a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Penn State will study the underlying mechanisms of nightmares and their relationship with anxiety-related mental health disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The breadth of the brain
Researchers in the Penn State Neuroscience Institute study the brain’s many aspects in a variety of ways, with implications from mental health to aging and disease.
$2.9M grant funds study on long-term effects adolescent binge drinking
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Penn State will use a new five-year, $2,900,000 grant to investigate the long-term effects of excess alcohol drinking during adolescence.
News
When dreams turn dark: Neuroscientists to study nightmares and mental health
Dreams, and likely nightmares, are experienced universally across humans and animals, but neuroscientists still do not know why. Now, with a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Penn State will study the underlying mechanisms of nightmares and their relationship with anxiety-related mental health disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The breadth of the brain
Researchers in the Penn State Neuroscience Institute study the brain’s many aspects in a variety of ways, with implications from mental health to aging and disease.
$2.9M grant funds study on long-term effects adolescent binge drinking
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Penn State will use a new five-year, $2,900,000 grant to investigate the long-term effects of excess alcohol drinking during adolescence.
Two engineering professors named international AI association fellows
Swaroop Ghosh, Penn State professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and Vishal Monga, Penn State professor of electrical engineering, have been selected as 2025 fellows of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).